Who was the hocking named for the hocking hills? I ask because my family surname is Hocking .I was born and bred in Plymouth, my father's family come from the cornish county (Cornwall) UK .

The Shawnee Indians named the river Hockhocking, and the Hocking County area drew its name from a shortened version of the name of the river. Someone named Christian Eby was the first settler that named the area.

What Joshua Good said.

Wow, that's some great history of Hocking hills. I absolutely love visiting there. Im from the city so its a great escape.

In the mid 1700s, this area was home to the Wyandot tribe whose village of Oldtown was situated along the banks of the Hocking River near present-day Logan. Their name for the river (from which the park gets its name) was Hockhocking, meaning "bottle river". Google