Bok Family History

Dutch: from an ancient Germanic personal name Bocco or Bucco possibly developed from Burkhard see Burkhart. Dutch: from bok in the sense ‘he-goat’ a nickname for a goatherd or for someone associated with the character or appearance of a he-goat. Alternatively, it may be a topographic or habitational name referring to a house with the word bok in its name e.g. In de Witte Bok (‘At the White He-Goat’). Compare Bock.

Czech: from the Old Czech personal name Bok a short form of names such as Bohuslav and Bohumil (see Bocek). Swedish: ornamental name from bok ‘beech’.

Slovenian and Croatian: nickname from German Bock ‘he-goat’ (see Bock) or a nickname or a topographic name from bok ‘side (of the human body)’ also ‘hillside’.

Jewish: variant of Bock.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 莫 possibly based on its Hokkien pronunciation see Mo. Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 卜 see Bu.