Tucker

Tucker is the 160th most common surname in the United States, shared by 160,581 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,861.

By the numbers

People: 160,581
Rank: 160th
How common: 1 in 1,861
Per 100,000: 53.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tucker described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Tucker

Chris Tucker (born 1971)American actor and comedian
Benjamin Tucker (1854–1939)American journalist and anarchist
Jonathan Tucker (born 1982)American actor
Sophie Tucker (1886–1966)Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality
Maureen Tucker (born 1944)American musician
Tanya Tucker (born 1958)American country singer
P. J. Tucker (born 1985)American basketball player
Roy A. Tucker (1951–2021)American astronomer

People named Tucker with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tucker

Tuck
Tucci

Also a first name

Tucker has been given to 55,554 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.