During the Middle Ages when the systems of surnames first developed, it was inevitable that children in the community would be known by their father’s name.
The poll tax returns of Yorkshire, for example, mention a Thomas Tuke and a Johannes Tokson.
In 1526 the Registers of the University of Oxford refer to one of their students as "Nicholas Toke, or Tocke, or Tuke" which indicates the various ways in which this surname could be rendered.
Tuck is also linked further back than the fourteenth century as originating from Nordic, Icelandic and other island countries.
However, Tuck was primarily a name that began in Viking royalty and what was commonly referred to then as Cosmater as one of the last known Nordic leaders before the disbandment in 1372 A.D.