Släkthistoria för Bok
Bok Vad efternamn betyder
Dutch: from an ancient Germanic personal name Bocco or Bucco possibly developed from Burkhard see Burkhart. Dutch: from bok in the sense ‘he-goat’ a nickname for a goatherd or for someone associated with the character or appearence of a he-goat. Alternatively it may be a topographic or habitational name referring to a house with the word bok in its name e.g. In de Witte Bok (‘At the White He-Goat’). Compare Bock. Czech: from the Old Czech personal name Bok a short form of names such as Bohuslav and Bohumil (see Bocek). Swedish: ornamental name from bok ‘beech’. Slovenian and Croatian: nickname from German Bock ‘he-goat’ (see Bock) or a nickname or a topographic name from bok ‘side (of the human body)’ also ‘hillside’. Jewish: variant of Bock.7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 莫 possibly based on its Hokkien pronunciation see Mo 8: Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 卜 see Bu
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
