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The Wecker surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 821 people carried this name — #28,940 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 11% from 740 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Wecker surname

wecken (“to wake”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns)

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Wecker» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 177 people named Wecker.

13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Moselle.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 13
Moselle 69
Bas-Rhin 22
Paris 20
Haut-Rhin 17
Meurthe-et-Moselle 8
Hauts-de-Seine 5
Ardennes 4
Oise 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

38 people named Wecker live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Zurich 17
Bern 5
Basel-Stadt 4
Neuchâtel 3
Solothurn 3
Vaud 3
Valais 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

Who carried it

People named Wecker,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Anna Wecker 1600–1596 · non-fiction writer
  • Georg Wecker 1831–1887 · painter
  • Georg Wecker 1831–1887 · painter
  • Aron Wecker 1860–1940
  • Anna Wecker 1861–1942
  • Sophie Wecker 1862–1943

Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Wecker.

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