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The BROCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 59,682 502 0.022 221
United States (1880 census) 10,400 577 0.021 208
Change since 1880 +49282 +75 +0.001 +13
Other Countries
Australia 1,261 1317 0.008 77
United Kingdom 4,380 1438 0.01 95
Top States for BROCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,592 555 0.022 220
Georgia 4,300 222 0.053 525
Florida 3,839 499 0.024 240
Kentucky 3,552 123 0.088 879
California 3,375 989 0.010 100
Top States for BROCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 3,552 123 0.088 879
South Carolina 2,680 209 0.067 668
Tennessee 3,027 262 0.053 532
Georgia 4,300 222 0.053 525
Mississippi 1,465 285 0.052 515

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BROCK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BROCK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BROCK in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BROCK by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BROCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BROCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BROCK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BROCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 853 1.43
White (Hispanic) 812 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 406 0.68
Asian/Pacific 197 0.33
White (Caucasian) 50,742 85.02
Black/African American 6,672 11.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BROCK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BROCK in historical publications

From the Saxon Broc, a badger. Broch, in Gaelic or Irish, Cor. Br. and Welsh, has the same meaning.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BROCK. A-Sax. hroc.—A badger. (See however Brockman). Also a medieval form of Brook. From one or other of these sources come the local surnames Brockbank, Brocksopp, Brockwell, Brockhurst, Brocklehurst, Brockway, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BROCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROCK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BROCK

The following words are slight variants of BROCK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.