The POLLOCK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,994	1420	0.009	85
United States (1880 census)	5,253	1156	0.011	105
Change since 1880	+17741	-264	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	2,382	676	0.015	146
United Kingdom	6,836	919	0.015	149

Top States for POLLOCK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,068	1581	0.006	61
Pennsylvania	1,925	655	0.016	157
Florida	1,705	1197	0.011	107
Ohio	1,466	876	0.013	129
New York	1,226	1476	0.006	65
Top States for POLLOCK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	412	709	0.018	184
Pennsylvania	1,925	655	0.016	157
Alaska	87	886	0.014	139
New Hampshire	160	1227	0.013	129
Ohio	1,466	876	0.013	129

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of POLLOCK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	485	2.11
Mixed Race	246	1.07
Native American/Alaskan	122	0.53
Asian/Pacific	113	0.49
White (Caucasian)	20,513	89.21
Black/African American	1,513	6.58

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

Meaning of POLLOCK in historical publications

(origin: Local) Derived from the parish of Pollock, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The name is from the Gaelic Pollag, "a little, pool, pit, or pond," a diminutive of pol, a pool. It is vulgarly pronounced Pock or Polk.

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

POLLOCK. Li Eng. Surnames, i. 169, I \entured to derive this name from Paul, of wliich it seemed to have been a dimiuutive. Its true derivation, however, appears to be from a place called Pollock in Eenfrewshire. The family were ' of that Ilk ' in the twelfth century.

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 POLLOCK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLLOCK.

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.