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[Facts] Ethnic Origin of a Last Name

by Connie (guest)

3/10/2006, 4:22 PM

Does anyone know the ethnic origin of the last name BROCK? Where does it come from is it Irish, Danish, what?

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- Miranda (Randee15)

3/10/2006, 5:48 PM

Click here: Brock. Or, for more info, click here: http://snipurl.com/nfnv.

Next time, please search on the main page of BtN before coming here. This board's primarily for questions regarding names not yet in the database, or for questions not covered by a pre-existing BtN entry.

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

3/10/2006, 5:46 PM

Brock is usually an English surname, derived either from Old English words meaning "brook" or "badger". However, according to Hanks & Hodges it can also be an Ashkenazic Jewish surname derived as an acronym from Hebrew Bar "son of" cobmined with any male name starting with K.

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