Woodcock

Woodcock is the 5,283rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,369 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,369
Rank: 5,283rd
How common: 1 in 46,900
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English wuducoc (“woodcock”), a nickname for a stupid or gullible person.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Woodcock

Tony Woodcock (born 1955)English footballer
George Woodcock (1912–1995)Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic

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

Surnames like Woodcock

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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.