Docking
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See also: docking
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Dockins
Etymology
From Old English docce (“dock, a weedy plant”) + -ing.
Proper noun
Docking (countable and uncountable, plural Dockings)
- A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Docking is the 13859th most common surname in England, belonging to 389 individuals.
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Docking”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 472.