Brock
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Brook; or from a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger or a young stag; possibly an acronymic Jewish surname.
- USUnited States1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.7K
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)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
61,369 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, 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)
Variant of Brook; or from a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger or a young stag; possibly an acronymic Jewish surname.
Sources 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)
Brock 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 | #489 | 61,369 | 1 in 5.4K | 61K | Brock | 482 |
| GB United Kingdom | #698 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 3 | Brock | 209 |
| IT Italy | #833 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | listed | Brock | 24 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Brock | 15 |
| CA Canada | #652 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 4 | Brock | 206 |
| SG Singapore | #530 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Brock | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | #518 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 15 | Brock | 67 |
| IS Iceland | #707 | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Brock | 6 |
61,369 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the xinhua-italian-manual register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Brock is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from mnd. brōk 'Bruch, Sumpf, Moorland'; 4190 tokens. Forms listed: Brock(s) 2017+458, Brocke 470, Brocker(s) 320+150, Brox 263, Brooks 134; Ten- 166, Vormbrock 112, Tebroke 100.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from mnd. brōk ‘Sumpf, Moor, Bruch’ und pōl ‘Sumpf, Tümpel’; < SiedlungsN X / < ON X where cited. Variant distribution discussed for the Brock type.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In English, (1) from OE brocc ‘badger’; first attested Ralph Broc 1119 Colch (Essex). (2) from OE brōc ‘brook, stream’; first attested Laurence del Brock 1267 Abbr (Somerset)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Scots for ‘badger’; related forms recorded as Henry Brok in 1328 and Gilbert Broky in 1429.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In German, Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature (Brock 'marsh, swamp'); bearers 4190.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Isaac Brockb. 1769GGBritish army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- Thomas Brockb. 1847GBBritish artist (1847–1922)
- William Emerson Brockb. 1872USAmerican politician (1872–1950)
- Bill Brockb. 1930USpolitician and United States Navy sailor (1930-2021)
- Lou Brockb. 1939USAmerican baseball player (1939–2020)
- Tricia Brockb. 1950USAmerican writer, director and producer
- Reinhard Brockb. 1951DEGerman actor (1951–2013)
- Jeremy Brockb. 1959GBBritish film director and screenwriter
- Isaac Brockb. 1975USAmerican musician
- Tricia Brockb. 1979USAmerican singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 61K | #546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 60K | #502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 58K | #566 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Brock mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Brook; or from a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger or a young stag; possibly an acronymic Jewish surname. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Brock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 61,369 people named Brock in 2010, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Brock compared with other names?
- In the United States, Brock is the 489th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Brock have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Brock, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brock.
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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, “Brock” — the 489th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.