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The ADCOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,550 2647 0.005 46
United States (1880 census) 2,334 2607 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +10216 -40 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 690 2332 0.004 42
United Kingdom 3,232 1939 0.007 70
Top States for ADCOCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,464 1704 0.007 70
Tennessee 1,393 643 0.024 245
North Carolina 1,041 1198 0.013 129
Georgia 739 1458 0.009 90
Alabama 659 1142 0.015 148
Top States for ADCOCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,393 643 0.024 245
Mississippi 642 700 0.023 226
Arkansas 516 689 0.019 193
Alabama 659 1142 0.015 148
North Carolina 1,041 1198 0.013 129

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

Classification and Origin of ADCOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 168 1.34
White (Hispanic) 151 1.2
Black/African American 109 0.87
Native American/Alaskan 78 0.62
Asian/Pacific 45 0.36
White (Caucasian) 12,000 95.62

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

Meaning of ADCOCK in historical publications

little Ad or Adam, cock being a diminutive termination. (See Alcock, Wilcox, etc.)

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


ADCOCK. A diminutive of xVdam. See termination Cock.

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 ADCOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ADCOCK.

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 ADCOCK

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