Rooker Family History
Rooker Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘distaff’ (see Rock ). English: from an agent derivative of Middle English rok(ke) ‘rock’. The surname may be topographic signifying someone who lived beside a prominent rock or rocky outcrop or habitational denoting someone who lived at a place so named. See Rock . Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who smokes fish or meat.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022