Meaning & origin
What it means
Locks is a form of Lock. Lock goes back to Old English loca, meaning “enclosure.”
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Where it comes from
Locks is a form of Lock. Lock has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Middle English loke; as a Chinese surname, it comes from Cantonese.
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Locks’s family of names
In English usage, Locks as a surname has a related form in Lock.
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