# Dock (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dock/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,639 |
| US rank (2010) | 17,274 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 188,374 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.2% (1,619 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## 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”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dock in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 53% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 33% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 7.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Similar surnames

Dick, Deck, Duck, Doak, Dyck, Dack, Dosch, Diaz, Duke, Dickey, Doss, Desai.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.