English: topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree,
from misdivision of Middle English atten oke ‘at the oak’.South German (also Nöck): from Tyrolean
nock, nog ‘rounded hill’, ‘rock’, hence a topographic
name for someone who lived by such a feature, or a nickname from the
same word used in the sense ‘short and fat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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