Cockroft
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑkɹəft/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cockroft is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Lancs. see Cockcroft .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 156K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 452K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 10K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Lancs. see Cockcroft .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cockroft 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | #868 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Cockroft | 1 |
| US United States | — | 736 | 1 in 452K | 736 | Cockroft | 204 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Cockroft | 104 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 687K | — | Cockroft | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Cockroft | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Cockroft | 49 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Cockroft | 40 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Cockroft | 3 |
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. 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)
- Sam Cockroftb. 1864NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Eric Cockroftb. 1890NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Joe Cockroftb. 1911GBEnglish footballer (1911-1994)
- Hubert Cockroftb. 1918GBEnglish footballer (1918-1979)
- Lindon Uhle Cockroftb. 1928agricultural economist (1928- )
- Shirley Murrayb. 1931NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand hymn lyrics writer (1931–2020)
- Don Cockroftb. 1945USAmerican football player
- Hannah Cockroftb. 1992GBBritish para athletics competitor
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 736 | #31,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 706 | #31,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 700 | #34,781 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Cockroft mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; also Lancs. see Cockcroft . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Cockroft?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑkɹəft/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cockroft have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cockroft in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cockroft.
- How common is the name Cockroft?
- In the United States, the national register counted 736 people named Cockroft in 2010, about 1 in 452 thousand residents.
- How common is Cockroft compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Cockroft is the 868th most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cockroftThe 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, “Cockroft” — the 868th most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.