Crocker
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Crocker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: (i) potter, from Middle English crock ‘pot’; (ii) different form of Croaker.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 13K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) potter, from Middle English crock ‘pot’; (ii) different form of Croaker.
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)
Crocker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Crocker | 5 |
| US United States | 20,370 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Crocker | 424 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Crocker | 179 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Crocker | 151 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Crocker | 156 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Crocker | 48 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Crocker 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 OE croc(c), crocca ‘earthen pot’; occupational ‘potter’; first attested John le Crockare 1275 SRWo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, 2. occupational name for a potter, from an agent deriv. of ME crock pot (OE croc(ca)). Crockett i. English and Scots (Galloway): nickname for someone who affected a particular hairstyle, from ME croket large curl (ONE croquet, dim. of croque curl, hook, OF croche\ see Crook). 2. Scots: Anglicized form of Gael. Mac Riocaird ‘son of Richard’. Vars.: Croket, Crockatt.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A potter.
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)
- Charles Crockerb. 1822USAmerican railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad (1822–1888)
- William Henry Crockerb. 1861USAmerican businessman (1861-1937)
- Harry Crockerb. 1893USAmerican actor and journalist (1893-1958)
- John Crockerb. 1896GBBritish Army general (1896–1963)
- Walter Crockerb. 1902AUAustralian diplomat (1902–2002)
- Barry Crockerb. 1935AU1935- Australian singer and actor
- Frankie Crockerb. 1937USAmerican radio DJ
- Steve Crockerb. 1944USAmerican Internet pioneer
- Ryan Crockerb. 1949USAmerican diplomat (born 1949)
- Ian Crockerb. 1982USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,854 |
| 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
- 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 Crocker mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) potter, from Middle English crock ‘pot’; (ii) different form of Croaker. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Crocker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Crocker in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crocker.
- How common is the name Crocker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,370 people named Crocker in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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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, “Crocker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.