Family name origins & meanings
- 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’.