The hock Surname
hock Name Meaning and History
- German (Bavaria; Höck): topographic name for someone living by a hedge, from a dialect variant of Heck 2.
- German: occupational name from Middle High German hocke ‘street trader’.
- South German form of Haack 2.
- Dutch: from a short form of a Germanic name with the first element hugi ‘mind’, ‘thought’ (e.g. Hugh, Hubert).
- Dutch: habitational or topographic name, a variant of Hoek.
- 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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