Given name & surname
Dock
“a physician; one who heals others”
Dock is a variant of Doctor. One American interpretation is “a physician; one who heals others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dock is a variant of Doctor. One American interpretation is “a physician; one who heals others.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dock is a variant of Doctor. An origin associated with Doctor is American.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dock through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,383
- 5,383 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 128 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 128 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 859 as a first name in 2020; 1,593 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dock’s family of names
Dock has a related form in Doctor. In English usage, Dock has a related form in DOCKE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dock
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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