Bock
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname. In English, recorded as A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 7K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bock is read(measured from records)
Bock is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German23%
buck, ram; the male of certain animals, especially goat, sheep, and roedeer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bock counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #92 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Bock | 198 |
| US United States | — | 13,382 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Bock | 402 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bock | 44 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,026 | 1 in 70K | 3K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Bock | 85 |
| AT Austria | #180 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Bock | 73 |
| DK Denmark | #770 | 468 | 1 in 13K | 468 | Bock | 66 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bock | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bock is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Verre à bière fabriqué à Munich pour servir la production du brasseur Bock (vers 1860). Par extension, se dit pour le contenu du verre. D’autres étymologistes y voient une ellipse de l’allemand Bockbier , littéralement bière de bouc ou bière fortement alcoolisée, déformation de Einbeckbier , bière d’Einbeck, mal prononcé et mal compris par les Munichois.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, a beer glass having the capacity of approximately a quarter of a litre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a buck; the male of goat and deer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, buck, male (of animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hieronymus Bockb. 1498DEGerman botanist (1498-1554)
- William Rose Bockb. 1847NZEngraver, medallist, illuminator, stamp designer, lithographer, publisher (1847-1932)
- Fedor von Bockb. 1880DEGerman field marshal (1880–1945)
- Jerry Bockb. 1928USAmerican theatre composer (1928-2010)
- Ute Bockb. 1942ATAustrian educator and humanitarian (1942–2018)
- Roland Bockb. 1944DEGerman wrestler
- Rainer Bockb. 1954DEGerman actor
- Mette Bockb. 1957DKDanish politician, journalist and consultant
- Maria Bockb. 1978NONorwegian actress and director
- Stefanie Bockb. 1988DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,746 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,383 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 468 | #928 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bock mean, and where does it come from?
- A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bock?
- In the etymology graph, Buck, Bode and Schaf are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bock have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Bock in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bock.
- How common is the name Bock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,382 people named Bock in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Bock compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bock is the 92nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bock” — the 92nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.