as a Last Name
- 3,491
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Shock
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English schock, ‘shock’, ‘group of sheaves (of grain)’, either a metonymic occupational name for someone who arranged sheaves in a shock, or a descriptive nickname for someone whose hair stood up on end, thus resembling a shock of sheaves.
| 9,298th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,491
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Shock per capita
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