Bock Family History
Bock Name Meaning
German: nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a he-goat Middle High German boc or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a goat. This surname is also found in some other European countries e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Czechia (compare 5 below). German (Böck): see Boeck . Dutch: variant of Bok . Compare De Bock . English: variant of Buck . Americanized or Germanized form of Czech Slovenian and Croatian Bok . Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Bock ‘he-goat’.7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 白 see Bai
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022