Necker

== English == === Etymology 1 === From French Necker, from German Necker. ==== Proper noun ==== Necker (countable and uncountable, plural Neckers) (countable) A surname from French. A small island of the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, United States, named after Jacques Necker; in full, Necker Island. ===== Synonyms ===== (Necker, Hawaii, USA): Necker Island, Mokumanamana ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Dutch Neckere. ==== Proper noun ==== Necker 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. ===== Synonyms ===== (Necker, BVI, UK): Necker Island === Etymology 3 === From German Necker. ==== Proper noun ==== Necker (plural Neckers) A surname from German. ===== Derived terms ===== == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Necker. === Proper noun === Necker ? a surname, Necker, from German 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) == German == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Necker m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Neckers or (with an article) Necker, feminine genitive Necker, plural Neckers or Necker) a surname, Necker