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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.
  • Possibly an altered form of German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dōk ‘fabric’.

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