Petherick
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Petrock, a personal name common in Cornwall, commemorating St Petrock; first attested Pethroke 1547 (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pet̪eɾiθk/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Petherick is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 72Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 75K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 140K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Petherick
- Spanish:/pet̪eɾiθk/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Petrock, a personal name common in Cornwall, commemorating St Petrock; first attested Pethroke 1547
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Petherick is found
(measured from records)Petherick 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 937 | Petherick | 102 |
| AU Australia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Petherick | 83 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 775K | — | Petherick | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Petherick | 67 |
| US United States | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 150 | Petherick | 106 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Petherick | 34 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Petherick is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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)- John Petherickb. 1813GBWelsh explorer (1813–1882)
- Maurice Petherickb. 1894GBBritish politician (1894-1985)
- Richard Petherickb. 1986NZNew Zealand field hockey 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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petherick mean, and where does it come from?
- from Petrock, a personal name common in Cornwall, commemorating St Petrock; first attested Pethroke 1547 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Petherick?
- In Spanish /pet̪eɾiθk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Petherick?
- Mondonomo estimates about 507 people named Petherick in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petherick. After it come Australia, Pakistan, Canada and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Petherick?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Petherick in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petherickThe 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, “Petherick” — ranked 6978th in the United Kingdom (Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.