Tucker is a given name of mixed origin, likely deriving from the occupational surname referring to a "cloth-softener". The word 'Tucker' comes from the German word ''Tucher'', meaning cloth-weaver.
People with the given name "Tucker" include
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Tucker Addington
Tucker Addington (born July 16, 1997) is an American football long snapper for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Sam Houston State and spent two years out of football before being selec ...
(born 1997), American football player
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Tucker Albrizzi
Tucker Albrizzi (born February 25, 2000) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tyler Duncan on '' Big Time Rush,'' Jake on ''Good Luck Charlie,'' Randall Snyder on ''American Vandal'' and Colin McConnell on '' A.P. Bio''. He h ...
(born 2000), American actor
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Tucker Ashford
Thomas Steven Ashford (born December 4, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. He was drafted second overall (to Roy Smalley III) in the January Draft by the San Diego Padres. In addition to the Padres, Ashford also played for th ...
(born 1954), American baseball player
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Tucker Barnhart
Tucker Jackson Barnhart (born January 7, 1991) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers. He made his MLB debut in ...
(born 1991), American baseball player
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Tucker Beathard
Tucker Russell Beathard ( ; born January 24, 1995) is an American country music singer and songwriter. A son of songwriter Casey Beathard, Beathard was signed to Dot Records, Dot Records, a subsidiary of Big Machine Records in 2015 where he rel ...
(born 1995), American singer-songwriter
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Tucker Bone
Tucker Bone (born January 23, 1996) is an American retired soccer player who last played for USL Championship side Sacramento Republic.
Career College
Bone played college soccer at the United States Air Force Academy between 2015 and 2018. While ...
(born 1996), American soccer player
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Tucker Boner
William Tucker Boner (born March 16, 1993), known online as Jericho or IIJERiiCHOII, is an American YouTuber and Twitch streamer. His last name originates from his ancestors hailing from the town of Bonn, Germany. The original German name, mean ...
(born 1993), American social media personality
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Tucker Bounds (born 1979), American politician
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Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American television host, conservative political commentator and writer who has hosted the nightly political talk show ''Tucker Carlson Tonight'' on Fox News since 2016.
Carlson began h ...
(born 1969), American television host
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Tucker Cawley
Tucker Cawley is an American television comedy writer and producer, best known for writing episodes for ''Everybody Loves Raymond''. He has also written for ''Men of a Certain Age'', ''Parks and Recreation'', '' Up All Night'', and the short-lived ...
, American television producer
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Tucker Croft (??–1955), Irish footballer
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Tucker Davidson
Joseph Tucker Davidson (born March 25, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Angels. Davidson played co ...
(born 1996), American baseball player
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Tucker DeVries (born 2002), American basketball player
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Tucker Dupree
Tucker Dupree is an American swimmer. He won three medals at the 2012 Paralympic Games and one at the 2016 Paralympic Games. He has also set multiple world and American records in swimming. He competes in the Paralympic classes S12/SB12/SM12. ...
(born 1989), American swimmer
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Tucker Durkin
Tucker Durkin (born September 5, 1990 in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) is an Americans, American Professional lacrosse player who played high school lacrosse at La Salle College High School and college, collegiately at Johns Hopkins Universit ...
(born 1990), American lacrosse player
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Tucker Elliot, American sportswriter
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Tucker Eskew
Tucker Eskew is a political and communications strategist in the United States who served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs and Global Communications under President George W. Bush. He joined Senator John McCain's presidentia ...
(born 1962), American political strategist
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Tucker Fredricks
Tucker Fredricks (born April 16, 1984) is an American speed skater and the US record holder in the 500 meter event. He competed at the 2006, 2010, and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Fredricks was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, where he graduated in 2002 ...
(born 1984), American speed skater
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Tucker Frederickson
Ivan Charles "Tucker" Frederickson (born January 12, 1943) is a former American football running back for the New York Giants of the NFL. He was an All-American in college, a Heisman Trophy runner-up, the #1 pick of the 1965 NFL draft, and a Pro ...
(born 1943), American football player
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Tucker Gates
Tucker Gates is an American television director and producer. He has directed several episodes of the ABC series ''Alias'' and ''Lost''. He has also directed episodes of '' Bates Motel'', '' Weeds'', ''Carnivàle'', '' Point Pleasant'', '' Huff'' ...
, American television director
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Tucker Gougelmann (1917–1975), American army officer
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Tucker Hibbert
Tucker Hibbert (born June 24, 1984, in Driggs, Idaho) is a retired American snowmobile racer.
Hibbert has won 14 medals at the Winter X Games, including an all-event record nine-straight in the SnoCross event. He had been the youngest gold meda ...
(born 1984), American snowboarder
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Tucker Hollingsworth (born 1984), American photographer
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Tucker Hume
Tucker Hume (born August 22, 1993) is an American soccer forward. He has a twin brother Walker Hume.
Playing career
In February 2017, Hume signed with Ottawa Fury FC in the United Soccer League.
On December 14, 2017, Hume signed with Nashvill ...
(born 1993), American soccer player
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Tucker Kraft (born 2000), American football player
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Tucker Lepley (born 2002), American soccer player
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Tucker Martine
Tucker Martine (born January 14, 1972) is an American record producer, musician and composer. In 2010, ''Paste'' Magazine included Martine in their list of the 10 Best Producers of the Decade.
Early life
Tucker Martine, the son of singer and son ...
(born 1972), American record producer
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Tucker Max
Tucker Max (born September 27, 1975) is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website ''TuckerMax.com'', which has received millions of visitors since Max lau ...
(born 1975), American author
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Tucker McCann
Tucker McCann (born November 10, 1997) is an American football placekicker who is a free agent. He played college football at Missouri Tigers football, Missouri.
Early life and high school
A native of O'Fallon, Illinois, McCann attended O'Fal ...
(born 1997), American football player
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Tucker L. Melancon (born 1946), American judge
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Tucker Murphy (born 1991), American-British skier
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Tucker Neale
Tucker F. Neale (born 1972) is an American former college basketball player. He played at Colgate University between 1992 and 1995, where in just three seasons he set the still-standing school record of 2,075 points. As a junior in 1994 he was na ...
(born 1972), American basketball player
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Tucker Nichols (born 1970), American artist
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Tucker Poolman
Tucker Poolman (born June 8, 1993) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career Early career
Born in Iowa, Poolman grew up in East Grand Forks ...
(born 1993), American ice hockey player
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Tucker Reed
Aisling Tucker Moore-Reed (born October 15, 1989), known by her pen name Tucker Reed, is an American novelist and disgraced civil rights activist who has been found liable for defamation and who was convicted of manslaughter in May 2020. Reed c ...
(born 1989), American murderer and author
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Tucker Rountree
Tucker Rountree (born 1981 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American songwriter, artist and videographer.
Rountree is known mainly through his involvement in Total Slacker. He's been featured and interviewed on VH1, NBC and given cameos on MTV i ...
(born 1981), American songwriter
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Tucker Smallwood
Tucker Smallwood (born February 22, 1944) is an American actor, author, and vocalist.
Early life
From 1967 to 1970, Smallwood served in the United States Army Airborne Infantry. Commanding a Mobile Advisory Team during the Vietnam War, he was n ...
(born 1944), American author
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Tucker Smith
Tucker Smith (born Thomas William Smith, April 24, 1936 – December 22, 1988) was an American actor, dancer, and singer who performed the role of Ice in the movie musical ''West Side Story''.
Life and career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
(1936–1988), American actor
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Tucker P. Smith (1898–1970), American academic
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Tucker Stephenson (born 1996), American soccer player
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Tucker Toman (born 2003), American baseball player
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Tucker Tooley
Tucker Tooley (born 1968/69) is an American film producer. He is the CEO of Tooley Productions LLC, where he independently produced television shows and feature films, including '' We’re the Millers'' (2013) which grossed $270 million worldwide. ...
(born 1968/1969), American film producer
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Tucker Vorster
Tucker Vorster (born 3 September 1988) is a South African tennis player.
Vorster has a career high ATP singles ranking of 278 achieved on 14 September 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 258 achieved on 15 August 2016.
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(born 1988), South African tennis player
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Tucker West
Tucker West (born June 15, 1995) is an American luger who, at the age of 18, was the youngest male ever to qualify to represent the United States in the men's luge at the Olympics. West placed 22nd in the men's single competition at the 2014 ...
(born 1995), American luger
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Tucker Wiard
Tucker Wiard (November 10, 1941 – August 28, 2022) was an American television editor. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Primetime Emmy Awards#Picture editing, Outstanding Picture Editing. Wiard die ...
(1941–2022), American television editor
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Tucker Zimmerman
Brian Tucker Zimmerman (born February 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
Early life
At age four, Zimmerman began violin lessons, on a violin made by his grandfather. At age seven, his family moved to Healdsburg, a rural town in the Wine ...
(born 1941), American singer-songwriter
Fictional characters
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Tucker Foley
The series '' Danny Phantom'' centers on young Danny Fenton and his coming-of-age story as a half-ghost superhero in the town of Amity Park. Over the course of the series, he betters both himself and his powers as he deals with ghosts, balancin ...
, a character on the Nicktoon ''
Danny Phantom
''Danny Phantom'' is an American animated superhero action adventure television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows Danny Fenton, a teenage boy who, after an accident with an unpredictable portal between the human ...
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Tucker Jenkins
Peter "Tucker" Jenkins is a main character of British children's drama series ''Grange Hill'', who appeared as a main cast member in the first four seasons. He would later guest appear in the show throughout its thirty-season run and would feat ...
, a character on the television series ''
Grange Hill
''Grange Hill'' is a British Children's television series, children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical Comprehensive school (England and Wales), comprehensive school. The show began its ru ...
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Tucker McCall
Tucker McCall is a fictional character from ''The Young and the Restless'', an American soap opera on the CBS network. Introduced by former head writer Maria Arena Bell, the character debuted during the episode airing on December 2, 2009, portra ...
, a character on the soap opera ''
The Young and the Restless
''The Young and the Restless'' (often abbreviated as ''Y&R'') is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in fictional Genoa City (not the real-life similarly-named Genoa City, Wi ...
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Tucker (surname)
Tucker is a surname of disputed origin.
Possible derivation of the name
The origin of the name is not entirely certain, but since it has a long history as a surname on the continent, as in England and from thereon, also in the United States, it ...
, a page for people with the surname "Tucker"
References
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English masculine given names
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