Fluker Family History

Americanized form of German Pflueger. Scottish: variant of Flucker an occupational name said to be from the rare Middle English term flokker ‘shepherd’ which is however not recorded in the Older Scots tongue.

The predominant spellings with -u- besides those with -o- point rather to a derivative of Middle English and Older Scottish fluke (Old English flōc) ‘flat fish’ (especially the flounder) + -er perhaps a term for a fisherman specializing in the catching of flat fish.

Alternatively it may be a variant of Fulcher (Middle English Fulcher Fulker Folker) with metathesis of l.