# Dock (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dock/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Norse |
| Meaning | “pit”, “depression”, “dark”, “cloth”, “piece of fabric” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,383 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,383 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, possibly from the noun duck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). * As a German surname, spelling variant of Docke, related to the noun Tuch (“cloth, piece of fabric”).

## What it means

Dock is grouped under black.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | 5,656 |
| 1988 | 9 | 4,897 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,220 |
| 1990 | 8 | 5,991 |
| 1993 | 12 | 4,790 |
| 1994 | 10 | 5,563 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,230 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,662 |
| 1998 | 7 | 7,803 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,443 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,919 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,984 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,705 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,970 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,705 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.