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The LOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,543 4935 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 4,168 1484 0.008 83
Change since 1880 +2375 -3451 -0.006 -59
Other Countries
Australia 1,981 818 0.012 121
United Kingdom 9,518 631 0.021 207
Top States for LOCK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 575 4831 0.002 17
Texas 455 4515 0.002 22
Michigan 422 2644 0.004 42
Illinois 399 3128 0.003 32
Missouri 375 1872 0.007 67
Top States for LOCK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 375 1872 0.007 67
Arkansas 170 2025 0.006 64
Indiana 365 2050 0.006 60
Wyoming 25 2574 0.005 51
Kansas 133 2334 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of LOCK

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 LOCK 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 LOCK 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 LOCK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 708 10.82
Asian/Pacific 431 6.59
White (Hispanic) 127 1.94
Mixed Race 108 1.65
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.7
White (Caucasian) 5,123 78.3

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

Meaning of LOCK in historical publications

LOCK. See Locke.

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 LOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOCK.

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 LOCK

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