Hoke Surname and Variants

Hoke
(Höke) occupational name from Middle Low German hoke, hake ‘small trader’ (see Hock).
Americanized form of Hauck.

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Hock
German (Bavaria; Höck): topographic name for someone living by a hedge, from a dialect variant of Heck 2.
German: occupational name from Middle High German hocke ‘street trader’.
South German form of Haack 2.
Dutch: from a short form of a Germanic name with the first element hugi ‘mind’, ‘thought’ (e.g. Hugh, Hubert).
Dutch: habitational or topographic name, a variant of Hoek.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): when not of the same origin as 2 above, from a short form of the personal name Isaac.

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Heck
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.
German: topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.
Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.

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Haack
North German: occupational name from Middle Low German hoke, hoker ‘huckster’, ‘hawker’, ‘peddler’ or possibly from Middle Low German hake ‘young fellow’.
North German and Dutch: from Middle Low German hake, Dutch haak ‘hook’ (e.g. a fish-hook), perhaps a nickname for someone with some deformity such as a hunch back or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used hooks.

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Hoek
habitational name from places called Hoek, e.g. in Ghent or Zeeland, or from Hoeke in West Flanders, or a topographic name from hoek ‘corner’, ‘nook’.
variant of Houck 1.

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Houck
nickname from Middle Dutch houck, a marine fish, or from Middle Dutch hoec, houck ‘buck’.
variant of Hoek.

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Hauck
German: from a dialect variant of the Germanic personal name Hugo (see Hugh).

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