Stock Name Meaning. ... German: from Middle German stoc 'tree', 'tree stump', hence a topographic name equivalent to 1, but sometimes also a nickname for an impolite or obstinate person.
Stock Name Meaning. English: probably for the most part a topographic name for someone who lived near the trunk or stump of a large tree, Middle English stocke (Old English stocc). In some cases the reference may be to a primitive foot-bridge over a stream consisting of a felled tree trunk.
Stockard Name Meaning. Scottish: occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc 'Gaelic trumpet'. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes. Dutch: nickname from a derivative of Middle Dutch stoken, stocken 'to attack or knock with a stick'.
Stockard Name Meaning. Scottish: occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc 'Gaelic trumpet'. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes. Dutch: nickname from a derivative of Middle Dutch stoken, stocken 'to attack or knock with a stick'.
Stockard Name Meaning. Scottish: occupational name for a trumpeter, Gaelic stocaire, an agent derivative of stoc 'Gaelic trumpet'. The name is borne by a sept of the McFarlanes.
The first part of the name (stock) means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word (Stock) meaning fortification. The second part of the name (holm) means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm.
Stockley Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon, County Durham, and Staffordshire, called Stockleigh or Stockley, from Old English stocc 'tree trunk' + leah 'clearing'.
Stockman Name Meaning. Dutch and English: from Middle Dutch stock 'stump', 'stick', Middle English stock 'stump', 'stick' (see Stock) + man 'man'. German (Stockmann): variant of Stocker 1 and 2.
English: habitational name from any of the places, for example in Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English stocc 'tree trunk' or stoc 'dependent settlement' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement'.
Stockwell is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Stockwell family once lived in either of the settlements called Stockwell in Surrey or Somerset, or near any footbridge over a stream.
