Silcock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Sill, with the suffix -cock, often added to create pet-forms of personal names
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Silcock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 52K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, 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)from the medieval personal name Sill, with the suffix -cock, often added to create pet-forms of personal names
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Silcock 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 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 2.2K | Silcock | 135 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Silcock | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Silcock | 92 |
| US United States | 239 | 1 in 1.4M | 264 | Silcock | 151 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Silcock | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Silcock | 54 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Silcock 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, from Sil-coc, a diminutive of Sil, a short form of Silvein or Silvester; first attested Silcokkus de Altricheham 1283 Cl (Ch)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)- Emma Caroline Silcockb. 1858AUCommunity worker and Anglican religious sister
- Dick Silcockb. 1878GBEnglish rugby league footballer and coach (1878–1936)
- Harry Thomas Silcockb. 1882GBEnglish Quaker missionary
- Frank Silcockb. 1894AUAustralian rules footballer (1894-1974)
- Jack Silcockb. 1898GBEnglish footballer (1898-1966)
- Nat Silcock, Sr.b. 1904GBEnglish rugby league footballer
- Nat Silcock, Jr.b. 1927AUEnglish rugby league footballer and coach (1927-1992)
- Hannah Silcockb. 2004GBEnglish footballer
- Patrick SilcockNZNew Zealand food scientist
- John Silcockstepfather of John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.2K | #3,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 264 | #78,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 239 | #79,598 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 219 | #80,502 |
| 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
- 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 Silcock mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Sill, with the suffix -cock, often added to create pet-forms of personal names Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Silcock have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Silcock in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silcock.
- How common is the name Silcock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 239 people named Silcock in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/silcockThe 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, “Silcock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.