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stock Name Meaning and History

  1. English: probably for the most part a topographic name for someone who lived near the trunk or stump of a large tree, Middle English stocke (Old English stocc). In some cases the reference may be to a primitive foot-bridge over a stream consisting of a felled tree trunk. Some early examples without prepositions may point to a nickname for a stout, stocky man or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of punishment stocks.
  2. German: from Middle German stoc ‘tree’, ‘tree stump’, hence a topographic name equivalent to 1, but sometimes also a nickname for an impolite or obstinate person.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Stock ‘stick’, ‘pole’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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stock Family Facts

Distribution of stock Families in the US in 1920
Number of stock families
 170-338
 57-169		 1-56
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