Bicker

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Bicker is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English61%

  biker (OE beocere). Bees were important in medieval Eng¬ land because their honey provided the only means of sweet¬ ening food, and was also useful in preserving. 2. habitation name from a place in Lines., so called from ON byr farm, settlement + kjarr wet ground, brushwood (see Kerr). Var.: Bikker. Patr. (from 1): Bickers.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

  To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  from OE bēocere/Anglian bīocere, later ME bīker ‘beekeeper’; first attested Robert le Biker 1176 P (St)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• German19%

  B-/P-Variation bei Bicker/Picker; Über- oder Berufsname zu mhd./mnd. bickel/bicker 'Spitzhacke' oder zum Verb; 343 Tokens.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

• Spanish7.0%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Bicker in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Bicker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Luxembourgish, plural of Bic

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Andries Bickerb. 1586NLLord of Engelenburg, member of Amsterdam regency, representative of the States-General of the Netherlands and board member VOC (1586-1652)
• Jan Gerritsz. Bickerb. 1591NLDutch mayor (1591-1653)
• Cornelis Bickerb. 1592NLDutch regent and politician (1592-1654)
• Roelof Bickerb. 1611Dutch captain, director arquebusiers' guild in Amsterdam
• Elisabeth Bickerb. 1631NLDutch art collector (1631-1666)
• Wendela Bickerb. 1635NLwife of Johan de Witt (1635-1668)
• Jacoba Bickerb. 1640NLDutch art collector (1640-1695); daughter of Jan Bicker and Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek; sister of Wendela Bicker
• Jan Bernd Bickerb. 1746NLDutch politician; member of the Batavian Republic's Staatsbewind, from 1803 to 1805 (1746–1812)
• Harvey Bickerb. 1938GBNorthern Irish politician
• Björn Bickerb. 1972DEGerman writer, curator, theater educator and director

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Bicker mean, and where does it come from?

biker (OE beocere). Bees were important in medieval Eng¬ land because their honey provided the only means of sweet¬ ening food, and was also useful in preserving. 2. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.

How do you pronounce Bicker?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈbɪkə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /bikceɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Bicker have the most bearers?

Bicker is most frequently recorded in the United States.