Adcock

11,729 people in the United States were counted with the surname Adcock in the 2020 census, making it the 3,000th most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,729
Rank: 3,000th
How common: 1 in 25,500
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From a diminutive of Adam + cock as a medieval masculine diminutive suffix.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adcock described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Adcock

Fleur Adcock (1934–2024)New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry
Chris Adcock (born 1989)badminton player
Hugh Adcock (1903–1975)English footballer
Frank Adcock (1886–1968)British classical historian
Gabrielle Adcock (born 1990)badminton player

People named Adcock with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.