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The bock Surname

bock Name Meaning and History

  1. German: nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a he-goat, Middle High German boc, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a goat.
  2. Altered spelling of German Böck (see Boeck) or Bach.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Bock ‘he-goat’.
  4. English: variant of Buck.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bock name in History

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Distribution of bock Families in the US in 1920
Number of bock families
 171-340
 58-170		 1-57
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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