Loc Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

The last name Loc is a variant form of Locke, a well-known English family name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Dweller by an enclosure”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Other spellings include Lock, Lockey and Lok.
• Records show Loc as one of the forms Locke took over time.
• The 2010 census count for Loc in the United States was 496, good for rank 43,511. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

Heraldry and the Loc name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Loc, so the heraldry linked to Locke is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the Loc surname pack.