Sock Family History
Sock Name Meaning
German: perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker (of light slipperlike shoes) from Middle High German socke ‘sock’. Germanized or Americanized form of Sorbian and Slovenian Sok . English: nickname from Middle English sugge soke ‘small bird’ attested in Middle English heysoke modern English dialect haysuck ‘dunnock hedge sparrow’. English: topographic name from Middle English sok(e) ‘marsh bog quagmire’ (Old English soc from sūcan ‘to suck’ or socian ‘to soak’). The surname may be for someone who lived in or by a boggy place or for someone who came from a place so named such as Sock Dennis (Somerset) or Sock in Mudford (Somerset). English: rarely from the Middle English personal name Soke (Old English Socca Old Norse Sokki). West African (Senegal): Tukulor name of unexplained etymology.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022