Lock Family History
Lock Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from
Middle English, Old English loc ‘lock’, ‘fastening’.English: topographic name for someone who lived near an enclosure,
a place that could be locked, Middle English loke, Old English
loca (a derivative of loc as in 1). Middle English
loke also came to be used to denote a barrier, in particular a
barrier on a river which could be opened and closed at will, and, by
extension, a bridge. The surname may thus also have been a metonymic
occupational name for a lock-keeper.English, Dutch, and German:
nickname for a person with fine hair, or curly hair, from Middle
English loc, Middle High German lock(e) ‘lock (of
hair)’, ‘curl’.Americanized spelling of German
Loch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lock
Name Distribution of Lock Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lock families
 61 - 120  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lock families
|
861 - 1,720 288 - 860 |
1 - 287 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lock families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lock Family Origin
Lock Immigration Information
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Lock Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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