Family name origins & meanings
- English : of uncertain derivation; possibly from Middle English doke ‘duck’ (see Duck).
- Norwegian : habitational name from a farm named Dokk, from Old Norse d{o,}kk ‘hollow’, ‘depression’.
- Possibly an altered form of German Docke, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in the cloth trade, from Middle Low German dōk ‘fabric’.