Adcock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Ade, with -cock, a pet-form suffix often added to personal names
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ədˈkɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adcock is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- 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)from the medieval personal name Ade, with -cock, a pet-form suffix often added to personal names
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Adcock is also recorded in 3 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 a pet-form of Adam; first attested Adecok Kay 1246 AssLa, Richard Hadecoc 1226 FrLeic, Robert Adekok 1275 SRWo, John Atkoc 1327 SRSt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Adecok Kay 1246 AssLa; Richard Hadecoc 1226 FrLeic; Robert Adekok 1275 SRWo; John Atkoc 1327 SRSt. Adecoc, a pet-form of Adam.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
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)- Arthur St. John Adcockb. 1864GBEnglish novelist and poet (1864-1930)
- Frank Adcockb. 1886GBBritish classical historian (1886–1968)
- Hugh Adcockb. 1903GBEnglish footballer (1903-1975)
- Joe Adcockb. 1927USAmerican baseball player (1927-1999)
- Fleur Adcockb. 1934NZNew Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry (1934–2024)
- Eddie Adcockb. 1938USMusician; banjo player
- Thomas Adcockb. 1947USAmerican novelist (born 1947)
- Tony Adcockb. 1963GBFootballer (born 1963)
- Chris Adcockb. 1989GBbadminton player
- Gabrielle Adcockb. 1990GBbadminton player
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,861 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #3,000 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,272 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #139,212 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #47,681 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #98,997 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #63,944 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adcock mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Ade, with -cock, a pet-form suffix often added to personal names Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Adcock?
- A machine transcription gives /ədˈkɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Adcock have the most bearers?
- Adcock is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adcockThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adcock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.