Recker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname mit -macher/-er-Varianz; Typ mit 970 Tokens/2 Typen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Recker is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- CACanada
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Berufsname mit -macher/-er-Varianz; Typ mit 970 Tokens/2 Typen. Variantenbildung: R(e/ä)cker.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Recker 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 German, schiffszieher
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Peter Reckerb. 1913DEGerman painter (1913-2003)
- Bernhard Reckerb. 1939DEGerman politician
- Thomas Reckerb. 1946DEGerman graphic designer
- Udo Reckerb. 1967DEGerman archaeologist and anthropologist
- Ingo Reckerb. 1975DEGerman film editor
- Luke Reckerb. 1978USAmerican basketball player (born 1978)
- Jan Reckerb. 1979DEresearcher
- Anthony Reckerb. 1983USbaseball player
- Mario ReckerGBresearcher
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,842 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 103 | #61,986 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 77 | #18,985 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #44,750 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 22 | #85,116 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Recker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname mit -macher/-er-Varianz; Typ mit 970 Tokens/2 Typen.
- In which country does Recker have the most bearers?
- Recker is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Recker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.