Flock
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: 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 as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 153K
- NONorway1 in 76K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Flock itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
2,179 people, 2010
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:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Flock is read(measured from records)
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 nameA 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 wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
Berufsname: zum Wollkämmer/Tuchscherer, zu mhd., mnd. vlocke 'Flocke, Flaum, Flockwolle'; teils Übername 'Weißhaariger'; 923 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Übername zu Flock(e): flockig/lockig, evtl. feines Haar oder Stoffflocke; 923 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flock 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,179 | 1 in 153K | 2.2K | Flock | 254 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Flock | 88 |
| EG Egypt | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 303K | — | Flock | 4 |
| ML Mali | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Floeck | 1 |
| IN India | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Flock | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Flock | 20 |
| BE Belgium | 89 | 1 in 132K | 89 | Flock | 12 |
| NO Norway | 72 | 1 in 76K | 72 | — | 4 |
2,179 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
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 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)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,200 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 89 | #17,026 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,243 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flockThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Flock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.