📖 Über Jock
Jock ist die schottische Form von Jack und Johann mit der Bedeutung 'Gott ist gnädig'; so allgegenwärtig in Schottland, dass es zum Sammelbegriff für jeden Schotten wurde, eingebettet im Sprichwort 'We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns' (wir sind alle gleich); es gab dem Englischen auch das Wort 'jock' für Sportler, über Jockey.
📍 Details
- HerkunftScottish
- Geschlecht♂ Männlich
- BedeutungScottish form of Jack and John. God is gracious
🔀 Varianten & Verwandte Namen
⭐ Berühmte Persönlichkeiten
- Jock Stein — Scottish football manager (1922-1985), one of the greatest managers in the history of the game; led Celtic FC from 1965 to 1978, winning nine consecutive Scottish league titles and — most famously — the European Cup in 1967 with a squad composed entirely of players born within 30 miles of Celtic Park; he died at the end of a World Cup qualifying match he had helped Scotland win.
- Jock Tamson (Scottish folk figure) — The hypothetical universal Scottish everyman whose name anchors the famous egalitarian saying 'We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns' (We are all Jock Thomson's children); the phrase encapsulates a distinctly Scottish democratic ideal — that all people, regardless of birth, are equally human and worthy of dignity.
- Jock Sutherland — American football coach (1889-1948), born in Scotland, who became one of the most successful college football coaches in the United States; his Pittsburgh Panthers teams won four national championships in the 1920s-1930s; later coached the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL.
- Jock Scot (fictional) — The archetypal Scottish soldier-figure of British military folklore; through generations of British Army service, 'the Jocks' became an affectionate collective term for Scottish regiments, whose fighting reputation was renowned across the Empire — the name's military dimension reflects centuries of Scottish martial culture.