Locker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE loc(a), perhaps a dweller by the enclosure or keeper of the bridge; first attested Henry le Lokkere 1292 MESO (Lancashire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lɑkɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Locker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 93K
- USUnited States1 in 115K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Löcker in AT Austria and Loecker in CK Cook Islands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE loc(a), perhaps a dweller by the enclosure or keeper of the bridge; first attested Henry le Lokkere 1292 MESO (Lancashire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Locker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Locker | 4 |
| US United States | — | 2,894 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Locker | 290 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Locker | 119 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Locker | 74 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Locker | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Löcker | 24 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Locker | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 9 | 1 in 6K | 9 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 5 | 1 in 15K | 5 | — | — |
| CK Cook Islands | #236 | — | — | — | Loecker | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Locker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, 1. occupational name for a locksmith, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old English loc ‘lock’, ‘fastening’ (see Lock). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by a lock or enclosure, from a derivative of Middle English loke (see Lock 2). 3. variant of Luker.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from Luckauer (Glatz)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, loose, relaxed
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Dutch, a locker (lockable storage compartment)
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edward Hawke Lockerb. 1777GBBritish artist (1777-1849)
- Carl Locherb. 1851SEnot in their usual nameDanish realist painter (1851-1915)
- Berl Lockerb. 1887ILIsraeli politician (1887-1972)
- Malka Lockerb. 1887ILIsraeli poet, translator, literary theorist
- Mizzi Lockerb. 1914RORomanian singer (1917-2014)
- Gerlinde Lockerb. 1938ATAustrian actress
- Bob Lockerb. 1938USAmerican baseball player
- Yochanan Lockerb. 1958ILIsraeli military officer
- Harel Lockerb. 1965ILIsraeli civil servant
- Jake Lockerb. 1988USAmerican football player (born 1988)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,987 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #11,782 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 9 | #173 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Locker mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE loc(a), perhaps a dweller by the enclosure or keeper of the bridge; first attested Henry le Lokkere 1292 MESO (Lancashire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Locker?
- A machine transcription gives /lɑkɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Locker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Locker in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled locker.
- Where is Locker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Locker is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 6.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Locker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,894 people named Locker in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
- How common is Locker compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Locker is the 236th most common surname of 473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lockerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Locker” — the 236th most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.