Where Does the Bocks Surname Come From?

Bocks sits within the Bock family of names, which has German roots.

Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The extra ending in Bocks is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Bock's family.

Arms linked to Bock and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Bocks surname pack.