Babcock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Middle English
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/babkɒk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Babcock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15K
- ITItaly≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 433 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
22,016 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Middle English.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Babcock counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 22,016 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Babcock | 433 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Babcock | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Babcock | 153 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 110 | Babcock | 92 |
| IT Italy | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Babcock | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Babcock | 12 |
| IE Ireland | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Babcock | 3 |
22,016 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Orville Elias Babcockb. 1835USUnion Army general (1835–1884)
- Joseph W. Babcockb. 1850USAmerican politician (1850-1909)
- Carrie Babcock Shermanb. 1856USSecond lady of the United States
- Bernie Babcockb. 1868USAmerican author (1868-1962)
- Harry Babcockb. 1890USathletics competitor (1890–1965)
- Fay Babcockb. 1895USAmerican set decorator (1895-1970)
- Horace Welcome Babcockb. 1912USAmerican astronomer (1912–2003)
- Jimmy Van Heusenb. 1913USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1913-1990)
- Barbara Babcockb. 1937USAmerican actress
- Mike Babcockb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player and coach
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 22K | #1,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,682 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 110 | #31,200 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Babcock mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Middle English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Babcock?
- A machine transcription gives /babkɒk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Babcock have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Babcock, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled babcock.
- How common is the name Babcock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,016 people named Babcock in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babcockThe 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, “Babcock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.