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hock Name Meaning and History

  1. German (Bavaria; Höck): topographic name for someone living by a hedge, from a dialect variant of Heck 2.
  2. German: occupational name from Middle High German hocke ‘street trader’.
  3. South German form of Haack 2.
  4. Dutch: from a short form of a Germanic name with the first element hugi ‘mind’, ‘thought’ (e.g. Hugh, Hubert).
  5. Dutch: habitational or topographic name, a variant of Hoek.
  6. Jewish (Ashkenazic): when not of the same origin as 2 above, from a short form of the personal name Isaac.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hock Families in the US in 1920
Number of hock families
 95-188
 32-94
 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Jacob Joseph Hock Germany>NY>LA brelle24 10
Hock in PA Craig5544 0
I Have Hock Family Info Rick Brittle 58
Charles Hock from Va. to Il. Patty 25
JOHNNA HOCK b. 2-20-1832WIFE: KATRINA ....PLEASE HELP! KHock712 2
Hock in Louisiana fjpalisi 1
ADAM HOCK & MARY MARTIN KINGSOLVERC 5
HOCK Photo Album/Scrap Book glenda 1
Hock's from Russia JilaineH 0
Adam & Mary Hock Shawn Hock 3
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