Necker

From French Necker, from German Necker.

Necker (countable and uncountable, plural Neckers)

1. (countable) A surname from French.
2. Ellipsis of Necker Island.; An island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, United States; named after Jacques Necker

• (Necker, Hawaii, USA): Necker Island, Mokumanamana

Dutch Neckere

Necker

1. Ellipsis of Necker Island. An island in the British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, in the West Indies, Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean; named after Jonathan de Neckere

• (Necker, BVI, UK): Necker Island

German Necker

Necker (plural Neckers)

1. A surname from German.

Borrowed from German Necker.

Necker ?

1. a surname from German, equivalent to English Necker
2. Ellipsis of île Necker.; An island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, United States; named for Jacques Necker, finance minister to Louis XVI, in 1798, by French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse

South German surname, habitational surname for someone living on the Neckar river, or from the noun Nock (“hilltop rock”), used often in Austria, of uncertain origin, but possibly a Celtic borrowing from Proto-Celtic *knukkos (“hill, protuberance”).

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Necker m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Neckers or (with an article) Necker, feminine genitive Necker, plural Neckers or Necker)

1. a surname, Necker