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The klock Surname

klock Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname from Middle Dutch or Low German cloec, clo(o)c ‘deft’, ‘skillful’, ‘clever’.
  2. habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of a bell, Middle High German glocke, Middle Dutch clocke. In some instances this may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a bell maker or bell ringer.
  3. nickname from de Kloke ‘the wise one’, from Middle Low German kloke ‘wise person’.

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

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Distribution of klock Families in the US in 1920
Number of klock families
 94-186
 32-93		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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