Guelker Family History
Guelker Name Meaning
North German (Gülker): habitational name for someone from the city in North Rhine-Westphalia now called Jülich derived from Gülke its old Rhenish name. In the 4th century the city was named in Latin as Juliacum ‘settlement of Julius’ and in 1094 it is documented as Guliche. Compare Gulker .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022