Dock

Where Dock comes from

* As an English surname, possibly from the noun duck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). * As a German surname, spelling variant of Docke, related to the noun Tuch (“cloth, piece of fabric”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Dock
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #244 among boys — 46 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #185
    63 babies named Dock — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    Dock Boggs born
    American musician
  4. 1945
    Dock Ellis born
    American baseball player
  5. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,370.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name or nickname.
Namesakes
  • Dock Ellis · American baseball player, 1945–2008
  • Dock Boggs · American musician, 1898–1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.