Flock Family History

English: variant of Flook or a variant of Folk (see Foulk) with metathesis of l. English: from Middle English flok ‘lock of wool’ (Old French floc) perhaps for someone who worked with wool or for someone with hair resembling wool.

Alternatively it may be a metonymic occupational name derived from Middle English flok ‘flock (of sheep)’ (Old English flocc) for a shepherd. Scottish: perhaps a shortened form of the surname Flucker (earlier Floker) denoting a fisherman.

German: from Middle High German Middle Low German vlocke ‘flake snow flake lock of wool’ perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the wool industry (compare 2 above).

German (Flöck): variant of Flück (see Fluck) or from a pet form of a personal name formed with Old Saxon flōd ‘flood’.