Given name & surname · also German
Bok
“buck, he-goat”
Bok is a surname from German, ultimately from Swedish.
Original GermanBock
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bok goes back to Dutch bok, meaning “buck, he-goat.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Bok comes from German, and ultimately from Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Bok as a surname developed from BOCK.
Bok’s family of names
In English usage, Bok as a surname developed from the German form BOCK. In Greek usage, Bok as a surname is a transliteration of Μποκ. In Khmer usage, Bok as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of បុក.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bok has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Swedish roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bok
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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