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brock Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook.
  2. English, Scottish, and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, Middle English broc(k) (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
  3. English: nickname from Old French broque, brock ‘young stag’.
  4. Dutch: from a personal name, a short form of Brockaert .
  5. South German: nickname for a stout and strong man from Middle High German brocke ‘lump’, ‘piece’.
  6. Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably an acronymic family name from Jewish Aramaic bar- or Hebrew ben- ‘son of’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. Compare Brill.
  7. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Brok, a place in Poland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brock Families in the US in 1920
Number of brock families
 218-434
 73-217		 1-72
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Brock Death Certificates LeaDw 0
Obit; Olive M. Hilker (nee Brock) 1922-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
Need Help with MS Brocks lenny1007 4
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George and Maude Ellen Brock of Illinois and Ohio vkgriffin 0
Shered Brock of Howard Co., Indiana, b. abt. 1817 egomez1344 0
Brocks /S.C., Tn., Ms. VRHOP 9
Brock's in SE Kentucky BradBrock32 157
Charles Leland Brock clinton116 0
Brocks: Chesterfield Co.,, S.C. and Fla iris garner 23
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