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The NOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,018 13766 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 530 9219 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1488 -4547 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 300 5217 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,726 3329 0.004 38
Top States for NOCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 275 2447 0.005 52
Pennsylvania 250 6646 0.002 20
Ohio 216 6858 0.002 19
Virginia 145 5772 0.002 20
New Jersey 140 7654 0.002 17
Top States for NOCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 76 2030 0.010 97
Maryland 275 2447 0.005 52
Virginia 145 5772 0.002 20
Pennsylvania 250 6646 0.002 20
Ohio 216 6858 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of NOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOCK 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 NOCK 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 NOCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 519 25.72
Mixed Race 23 1.14
White (Hispanic) 18 0.89
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.64
Asian/Pacific 10 0.5
White (Caucasian) 1,435 71.11

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

Meaning of NOCK in historical publications

NOCK. Probably identical with Noke or Noakes, which see. It is Noc, without prefix, in H.R.

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 NOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOCK.

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 NOCK

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