# Kock (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kock/  
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 | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 881 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,392 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 350,449 people |
| Change since 2000 | -22.7% (1,139 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch and North/Low German occupational surname for a cook, from kok. Similar to Kok, Cocke. * As a south German surname Köck, a Bavarian variant of Beck. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Kok.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kock 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) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4% |

## Similar surnames

Keck, Kuck, Kok, Kick, Koc, Koke, Kook, Koch, Kwok, Koski, Kosch, Keys.

## 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.