topographic name for someone
living by a tree stump (see Stock 2) or an occupational name
for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear
land’.
from Middle High German stocker
‘jailer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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