Booker surname meaning

Booker is an English occupational surname from Middle English bokere or bouker, “learned man,” “scholar,” or “scribe,” from Old English bōcere, an agent form of bōc, “book.” DAFN also treats Booker as a variant of Bowker, the name of someone who bleached cloth in lye, and as an Americanized form of German Bucher. The American spelling can therefore point to a clerkly trade, a textile finishing trade, or a German immigrant line. Occupation is the right catalog type for all of those job-based explanations. Confidence is disputed because the scribe and Bowker readings are both standard dictionary entries under Booker.