How common is the surname Kock?

881 people in the United States had the surname Kock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 350,449 Americans. It ranked 27,392nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kock?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kock getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 881 in 2010, down 23%.

The surname Kock

An occupational surname, carried by 881 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kock is more common than 83.1% of them.

Origin

* 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.

Kock is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 881 people named Kock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 350,449 Americans. That is down 23% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,139.

#27,392

rank among US surnames

881

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-22.7%

change since 2000 (was #21,406)

Who is named Kock

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

93% of people named Kock identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kock

Kock has the Soundex code K200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K200.

Questions

Where does the surname Kock come from?: * 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.
How common is the surname Kock?: 881 people in the United States had the surname Kock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 350,449 Americans. It ranked 27,392nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kock?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Kock?: Kock is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Kock getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 881 in 2010, down 23%.