The surname Jock
A surname, carried by 1,429 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ 1 syllable Soundex J200 Also a first name
Origin
A Scots variant of Jack.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,429 people named Jock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. That is up 9.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,301.
Who is named Jock
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Jock identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 82%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 7.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
- Two or more races 1.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Jock has the Soundex code J200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J200.
Questions
- Where does the surname Jock come from?
- A Scots variant of Jack.
- How common is the surname Jock?
- 1,429 people in the United States had the surname Jock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. It ranked 19,053rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Jock?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Jock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- How do you pronounce Jock?
- Jock is /ˈd͡ʒɑk/, one syllable.
- Is the surname Jock getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,301 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,429 in 2010, up 9.8%.
- Is Jock also a first name?
- Yes. Jock is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.