Docking

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)

1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF765370).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Docking is the 13859^th most common surname in England, belonging to 389 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Docking”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 472.