Dowker Family History
Dowker Name Meaning
unexplained; perhaps a locative name from Docker in Whittington parish (Lancs) about 5 miles from Warton or from a place in Westm with the same name. The place-name may be from Old Scandinavian dǫkk ‘hollow valley’ + ǽrgi ‘shieling’.in theory perhaps a nickname from Middle English doukere ‘a diving bird’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016