Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

English : of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for someone with thick curly hair, from Old French floc ‘stable of wool’. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Old English flocc ‘herd’, ‘company’.
German : unexplained.
German (Flöck) : variant of Flück (see Fluck), or from a pet form of a personal name formed with Old Saxon flōd ‘flood’.

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