Locke

At the 2020 census, 25,742 Americans bore the surname Locke — 1,337th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,600.

By the numbers

People: 25,742
Rank: 1,337th
How common: 1 in 11,600
Per 100,000: 8.6

Where the name comes from

As an English, Dutch and German surname, variant of Lock.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Locke

John Locke (1632–1704)English philosopher and physician
Sondra Locke (1944–2018)American actress
Joe Locke (born 2003)Manx actor
Gary Locke (born 1950)American politician
Spencer Locke (born 1991)American actress
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885–1954)American philosopher and writer
Matthew Locke (1632–1677)English Baroque composer
Kimberley Locke (born 1978)American singer-songwriter

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

Surnames like Locke

Also a first name

Locke has been given to 1,063 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.