Family name origins & meanings
- English : from Middle English doke, hence a nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to a duck or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept ducks or for a wild fowler.
- Irish : English name adopted as an equivalent of Lohan (an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’) by mistranslation, as if from lacha ‘duck’.
- North German (also Dück) : probably a nickname for a coward, from Low German duken ‘to duck or dive’.
- German (Dück(e)) : from a pet form of an old Germanic personal name formed with theud, diot ‘people’, ‘race’.