Necker

From French Necker, from German Necker.

Necker (countable and uncountable, plural Neckers)

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

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

From Dutch Neckere.

Necker

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

• (Necker, BVI, UK): Necker Island

From German Necker.

Necker (plural Neckers)

1. A surname from German.

Borrowed from German Necker.

Necker ?

1. a surname, Necker, from German
2. Necker (an island of the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, United States, named for Jacques Necker, finance minister to Louis XVI, in 1798, by French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse; in full, île Necker)

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