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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English schock, ‘shock’, ‘group of sheaves (of grain)’, either a metonymic occupational name for someone who arranged sheaves in a shock, or a descriptive nickname for someone whose hair stood up on end, thus resembling a shock of sheaves.
  • Americanized spelling of German Schock.

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