Why is a Quaker called a Quaker?

Question

Please answer truthfully no jokes.

Answer 1

They like oats.

Answer 2

There are SEVERAL annecdotal storries from the earliest times of Quakers (whose spiritual affiliation is formally called the Religious Society of Friends) of who first called them this. (Links below.) Most that I have read says a judge to George Fox (the founder of the Religious Society), but I have also seen one that says George I in response to William Penn. It very quickly became a nickname for Friends, and was one apparently not minded by them even in the early days.

What the stories have in common usually is a reference of Friends trembling or "Quaking before the Lord".

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker#Names
The name "Quaker" was first used in 1650, when George Fox was brought before Justice Bennet of Derby on a charge of blasphemy. According to Fox's journal, Bennet "called us Quakers because we bid them tremble at the word of God."[13] Therefore, what began apparently as a way to make fun of Fox's comment by those outside the Society of Friends became a nickname that even Friends use for themselves.

Answer 4

Because they were known to quake in their religious fervor. That's the truth - no joke!

Answer 5

quaker means bonk fast before my parents come home!

Answer 6

same reason a Shaker is called a Shaker....google it...