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flock Name Meaning and History

  1. English: of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for someone with thick curly hair, from Old French floc ‘stable of wool’. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Old English flocc ‘herd’, ‘company’.
  2. German: unexplained.
  3. German (Flöck): variant of Flück (see Fluck), or from a pet form of a personal name formed with Old Saxon flod ‘flood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of flock Families in the US in 1920
Number of flock families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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