Bok (surname)


Bok is a surname.

Origins

As a Chinese surname, Bok transcribes the Hokkien pronunciations of various surnames spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Mu or Mo. Hokkien spellings of Chinese surnames are often found in Malaysia and Singapore, where many descendants of Chinese migrants can trace their roots to the Fujian province of China.
The Dutch surname Bok comes from the Dutch word for billy goat,. Similarly, the Jewish surname Bok, a variant spelling of Bock, originated from the German word for billy goat,.
Bok is also a Slovenian surname, of unexplained origin.
As a Swedish surname, Bok originated as an ornamental surname, from the Swedish word for beech,.

Statistics

In the Netherlands, there were 1,751 people with the surname Bok and five with the surname Bók as of 2007, up from 1,197 in 1947.
The 2000 South Korean Census found 8,644 people in 2,663 households with the surname Bok; 7,471 of those were members of the Myeoncheon bon-gwan.
The 2010 United States Census found 738 people with the surname Bok, making it the 31,383rd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 599 in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, 73.71% of the bearers of the surname identified as White, and 21.41% as Asian.

Notable people with the surname