# Charnock (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/charnock/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 540 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,494 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 571,751 people |
| Change since 2000 | -4.3% (564 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Two origins: * English habitational surname from the villages of Heath Charnock and Charnock Richard, in Lancashire, probably of Celtic origin and related to the name Cairns. * Americanized spelling of Polish Czarnoch or Slovak Černok; see Cernik.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Charnock in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Charnock in the Kingdom of England.

## People named Charnock

- Job Charnock, British businessman

## Similar surnames

Cronk, Crank, Czarnecki, Carranza, Carmichael, Crenshaw, Cornejo, Carnes, Carrington, Cornish, Carmack, Cairns.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.