The dock Surname
dock Name Meaning and History
- English: of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).
- Norwegian: habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.
- 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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| Bessie Dock | Frank Campbell | 1 |
| Docks from Alsace Lorraine |
 crabbdock
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| Dock | Dock | 49 |
| Dock in Grand Forks, North Dakota |
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| Dock family from Belgium |
Xarro
| 0 |
| Dock - Georgia |
Brenda Richardson
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| Benjamin Franklin Dock, Snyder County, PA, 1853 |
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| Bessie R. Dock |
jenniferfrance1
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| docks-central pa. |
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| William Docks 1740 |
Mary Majesty
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