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dock Name Meaning and History

  1. English: of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.
  3. Possibly an altered form of German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dok ‘fabric’.

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

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Distribution of dock Families in the US in 1920
Number of dock families
 26-49
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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