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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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