Boeck
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante zu Buch/Böck; Beleg für ch/(c)k-Variation, wohl zu 'Buche' gestellt
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈboʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boeck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.6Kas Bock(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 7Kas Bock
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 17Kas Bock
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Boeck itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 402 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named Bock, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Bock
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bock in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante zu Buch/Böck; Beleg für ch/(c)k-Variation, wohl zu 'Buche' gestellt. 1235 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boeck counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #92 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Bock | 198 |
| US United States | — | 13,382as Bock | 1 in 25K | 13K | Bock | 402 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bock | 44 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,026as Bock | 1 in 70K | 3K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Bock | 85 |
| AT Austria | #180 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Bock | 73 |
| DK Denmark | #770 | 468as Bock | 1 in 13K | 468 | Bock | 66 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Bock | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Boeck is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Zu Beck 'Bäcker'; gerundete Variante. Plate zeigt k/ck-Variation und oe/ö-Schreibung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christian Peder Bianco Boeckb. 1798NONorwegian medical doctor, zoologist and mountain climber (1798-1877)
- Carl Wilhelm Boeckb. 1808NONorwegian dermatologist (1808–1875)
- Johann Friedrich Boeckb. 1811DEGerman painter (1811–1873)
- Jonas Axel Boeckb. 1833NONorwegian biologist
- Cæsar Peter Møller Boeckb. 1845NONorwegian dermatologist
- Christopher Boeckb. 1850DKDanish novelist
- Kurt Boeckb. 1855DEGerman actor (1855–1933)
- Wolfgang Boeckb. 1902DEGerman politician (1902–1986)
- Brian Boeckb. 1971American historian
- Marcelo Boeckb. 1984BRBrazilian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,806 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 783 | #11,455 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 87 | #6,263 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Boeck?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Boeck mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante zu Buch/Böck; Beleg für ch/(c)k-Variation, wohl zu 'Buche' gestellt.
- In which country does Boeck have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Bock in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Boeck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,382 people named Bock in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Boeck compared with other names?
- In Germany, Boeck is the 92nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boeck?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boeckThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boeck” — the 92nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.