Vicker Family History

English: occupational name or nickname from Anglo-Norman French vikere vicare vicaire ‘vicar’ denoting someone who acted as a parish priest in place of the parson or rector. It became a regular word for a parish priest because in practice most benefice holders were absentees.

As priests vicars were officially celibate so the eponymous ancestors of modern bearers of the surname may either have been illegitimate children of a vicar or more likely bore Vikere as a nickname; compare Priest and Parson.

English: variant of Vigar with devoicing of medial /g/ to /k/ perhaps by confusion with the word or name in 1 above.

Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McVicar an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac áBhiocair (Scottish) or Mac an Bhiocaire (Irish) ‘son of the vicar’.