Given name & surname
Wecker
“to wake”
Wecker is a surname from German. It is used in German.
Original GermanWackerle
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From German -er, built from German wecken (“to wake”) + er.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wecker’s family of names
In German usage, Wecker as a surname has a related form in WACAR. In German usage, Wecker as a surname has a related form in WACKER. In German usage, Wecker as a surname has a related form in Wackerl.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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