Flock

Locally spelled Floeck in ML Mali.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Flock 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.

• English75%

  either OFr floc ‘lock of wool’, perhaps referring to woolly hair, or OE ftocc ‘herd, company’, metonymic for a shepherd; first attested John Flocc c1160 ELPN

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

  fahai = vaha; v., vahango. Flock, as of birds, school, fish, crowd of persons, kulu = gilu. Nwoni gilui i léwéasangi, The flock of birds is pass- ing by quickly. Flock of sokeélé, small sparrows

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

  A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German11%

  Berufsname: zum Wollkämmer/Tuchscherer, zu mhd., mnd. vlocke 'Flocke, Flaum, Flockwolle'; teils Übername 'Weißhaariger'; 923 Belege.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  Übername zu Flock(e): flockig/lockig, evtl. feines Haar oder Stoffflocke; 923 Träger.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Flock is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

  Also written Flöck

• Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico

  Also written Flöck

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Flöck

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Flock is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, a flock (group of animals (or people, by extension, often emphasizing lack of independence or the like))

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Dorothea Flockb. 1608DEvictim of the witch trials in Bamberg
• Bob Flockb. 1918USAmerican racing driver
• Fonty Flockb. 1920USracecar driver (1920-1972)
• Tim Flockb. 1924USAmerican racecar driver (1924–1998)
• Willy Flockb. 1939NONorwegian writer
• Hans Flockb. 1940NONorwegian judge
• Dirk Flockb. 1972DEGerman footballer
• Kendra Flockb. 1985CACanadian association football player
• Susanna Flockb. 1988ATAustrian artist
• Janine Flockb. 1989ATAustrian skeleton racer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Flock mean, and where does it come from?

either OFr floc ‘lock of wool’, perhaps referring to woolly hair, or OE ftocc ‘herd, company’, metonymic for a shepherd; first attested John Flocc c1160 ELPN Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

How do you pronounce Flock?

A machine transcription gives /flɑk/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Flock have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Flock, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flock.

How common is the name Flock?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,179 people named Flock in 2010, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.