Given name & surname

Docker

“hollow”

Docker is a surname, probably from Old Norse.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Docker probably goes back to Old Norse dǫkk, meaning “hollow.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Docker probably comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

Probably from Old Norse dǫkk (“hollow”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Old Norse

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Irish

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No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

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No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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