Etymology

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Today it means: An English surname — famously held by Full definition →

Old Norse lykkja
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromlykkja“enclosure”
  2. English todayLocke

* As an English, Dutch and German surname, variant of Lock. * As a Norwegian surname, Americanized from Løkke, from a farm name derived from Old Norse lykkja (“enclosure”). * As a Chinese surname, variant of Lok.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.