Believed to be of Germanic origin, the first written record of the word "Fuck" was in Scottland although believed to be in verbal use much earlier than this record.

The earliest known use of fuck was recently discovered by Paul Booth of Keele University. The name Roger Fuckebythenavele appears three times in the Chester county court plea rolls between 8 December 1310 and 28 September 1311. The name, presumably a nickname hinting at sexual inexperience, appears in the rolls as part of a process to have the man declared an outlaw. [Editorial note: many of us have embarrassing nicknames from our youths, but to have one this unfortunate remembered seven hundred years later is a special form of hell.]

The name "Roger" is of the same origin and means "Spearman" - also slang for "penis".