How common is the surname Hathcock?

3,726 people in the United States had the surname Hathcock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,862 Americans. It ranked 8,793rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Hathcock getting more or less common?

More common. 3,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,726 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Hathcock

A surname, carried by 3,726 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H322

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hathcock is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

Variant of Heathcock.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,726 people named Hathcock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,862 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,603.

#8,793

rank among US surnames

3,726

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,424)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,787	Nyberg	3,732	82,729
#8,789	Florian	3,731	82,751
#8,791	Geraci	3,729	82,796
#8,793	Crotty	3,726	82,862
#8,797	Pavlik	3,725	82,885
#8,799	Ober	3,724	82,907

Who is named Hathcock

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

93% of people named Hathcock identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hathcock

Hathcock has the Soundex code H322, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H322.

Questions

Where does the surname Hathcock come from?: Variant of Heathcock.
How common is the surname Hathcock?: 3,726 people in the United States had the surname Hathcock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,862 Americans. It ranked 8,793rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hathcock?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hathcock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Hathcock getting more or less common?: More common. 3,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,726 in 2010, up 3.4%.