Paddock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person who lives in or by a paddock or enclosed meadow; (ii) nickname for someone thought to resemble a toad or frog
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pædək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paddock is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Person who lives in or by a paddock or enclosed meadow; (ii) nickname for someone thought to resemble a toad or frog.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Paddock is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Old English *padduc ‘frog’; first attested Thomas, Walter Paddoc 1279 RH (C)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, paddock or enclosed meadow, from ME parrock (OE pearrue ; cf. Parr i and Park i). The change of -rr- to -dd- did not occur before the 17th cent., and is not readdy explained. 2. nickname for someone considered to resemble a toad or frog, from ME paddock, dim. of pad (from ON padda, apparently from the root pa (of) marsh, bog).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, paddock or enclosed meadow, from ME parrock (OE pearruc, cf. Parr i and Park i). The change of -rr- to dd- did not occur before the 17th cent., and is not readily explained. 2. nickname for someone considered to resem¬ ble a toad or frog, from ME paddock, dim. of pad (from ON padda, apparently from the root pa(d) marsh, bog).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francis Paddockb. 1814US19th-century American pioneer
- Algernon Sidney Paddockb. 1830USAmerican politician (1830-1897)
- Josephine Paddockb. 1885USAmerican painter (1885–1964)
- George A. Paddockb. 1885USAmerican politician (1885-1964)
- Charley Paddockb. 1900USAmerican athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1900-1943)
- Benjamin Hoskins Paddockb. 1926USAmerican bank robber and con man (1926–1998)
- Stephen Paddockb. 1953USAmerican mass murderer (1953–2017)
- John Paddockb. 1954CACanadian ice hockey player and coach
- Cam Paddockb. 1983CACanadian ice hockey player
- Susan Mary PaddockUSAmerican statistician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #6,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,645 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.6K | #4,388 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #369,830 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #249,802 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,991 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paddock mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person who lives in or by a paddock or enclosed meadow; (ii) nickname for someone thought to resemble a toad or frog. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Paddock?
- A machine transcription gives /pædək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paddock have the most bearers?
- Paddock is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Paddock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.