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The nock Surname

nock Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree, from misdivision of Middle English atten oke ‘at the oak’.
  2. South German (also Nöck): from Tyrolean nock, nog ‘rounded hill’, ‘rock’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a feature, or a nickname from the same word used in the sense ‘short and fat’.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the nock family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of nock Families in the US in 1920
Number of nock families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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