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    The surname Dockery

    A place surname, carried by 11,644 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D260

    Dockery: #3,089 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Dockery #3,089, 11,644 people Dockery: #3,089 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dockery #3,089, 11,644 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dockery is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    Two main origins: * Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty.

    Dockery is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,644 people named Dockery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,515 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,108.

    #3,089
    rank among US surnames
    11,644
    people in 2010
    4.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #2,983)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,080Sommer11,66226,474
    #3,082McHenry11,66026,479
    #3,083Cason11,65726,486
    #3,084Faulk11,65626,488
    #3,086Bigelow11,65026,502
    #3,087Helm11,64926,504
    #3,088Bull11,64626,511

    Who is named Dockery

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Dockery identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Dockerys

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Michelle Dockery
      British actress, born 1981
    • Wayne Dockery
      American musician (1941–2018)

    Notable Dockerys come mostly from the United Kingdom (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Dockery

    Dockery has the Soundex code D260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D260.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dockery come from?
    Two main origins: * Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty.
    How common is the surname Dockery?
    11,644 people in the United States had the surname Dockery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,515 Americans. It ranked 3,089th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dockery?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Dockery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Dockery?
    Michelle Dockery, British actress, followed by Wayne Dockery.
    Where is the surname Dockery most common?
    Wikidata records people named Dockery in the United Kingdom and the United States.
    What type of surname is Dockery?
    Dockery is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Dockery getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,108 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,644 in 2010, up 4.8%.