Last name: HOCK

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HOCK : This last name is indexed 58,671 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HOCK : 1: German (Bavaria; Höck): topographic name for someone living by a hedge from a dialect variant of Heck 1. Compare Hoeck.2: German: occupational name from Middle High German hocke ‘street trader’.3: South German: variant of Haack 2.4: German (also Höck) and Dutch: from a short form of an ancient Germanic name with the first element hugi ‘mind thought’ (e.g. Hubert). Compare Hoeck and Huck.5: Jewish (Ashkenazic): when not of the same origin as 2 above from a short form of the personal name Isaac.6: English: from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Hocke which might derive from Old English Hocca (of uncertain origin) or from a shortened form of Oki (see Okey) with prosthetic H-.7: English: sometimes a variant of Hook with shortened vowel.

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