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Brock Surname

5,249th Most Commonsurname in the World

Approximately 108,038 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in: United StatesHighest density in: Falkland Islands

Brock Surname Definition:

Nick 'the brock,' i.e. the badger. 'Thei wenten about in brok skynnes': Heb. xi. 37 (Wyclif).

Robert le Brokk, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

William le Broc, Somerset, 1 Edward III: ibid.

Gilbert le Brok, Oxfordshire, 1273.

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Brock Surname Distribution Map

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• 2014
• 1901
• 1881
• 1880

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	81,704	1:4,436	496
Germany	7,318	1:11,001	1,401
England	5,511	1:10,110	1,495
Australia	3,426	1:7,880	1,174
Canada	2,791	1:13,202	1,946
Ghana	970	1:27,856	3,309
Brazil	948	1:225,817	8,737
Denmark	625	1:9,032	829
New Zealand	570	1:7,944	1,350
Scotland	562	1:9,526	1,345
South Africa	501	1:108,139	13,025
Wales	475	1:6,515	723
Netherlands	469	1:36,007	6,048
Belgium	257	1:44,734	7,276
Austria	196	1:43,446	6,962
France	176	1:377,402	56,030
Ireland	165	1:28,539	2,576
Thailand	126	1:560,622	95,829
Japan	118	1:1,083,426	20,860
Sweden	97	1:101,513	7,360
Northern Ireland	86	1:21,454	2,532
Panama	68	1:57,533	2,676
Peru	59	1:538,714	14,638
Jamaica	56	1:51,249	2,953
Spain	53	1:882,114	34,832
Colombia	51	1:936,747	8,990
Guernsey	44	1:1,465	311
Dominican Republic	39	1:267,511	9,432
Guyana	37	1:20,601	2,557
Norway	34	1:151,244	18,822
Singapore	30	1:183,590	7,666
Kuwait	29	1:131,058	14,967
Switzerland	28	1:293,318	23,433
Estonia	27	1:48,956	9,235
Chile	24	1:734,020	16,565
Italy	23	1:2,658,986	96,069
Mexico	22	1:5,642,100	30,806
Russia	20	1:7,206,153	275,629
Israel	19	1:450,402	34,739
Venezuela	19	1:1,589,688	20,788
Jersey	17	1:5,835	1,193
Poland	17	1:2,235,809	104,965
Angola	16	1:1,686,826	3,823
Philippines	16	1:6,327,389	184,366
Bermuda	15	1:4,352	690
Zimbabwe	14	1:1,102,731	66,551
Czechia	13	1:817,959	70,223
India	13	1:59,005,029	552,550
Costa Rica	10	1:478,007	4,148
Hong Kong	10	1:733,548	3,685
China	8	1:170,915,196	8,932
Guam	8	1:20,015	3,029
Solomon Islands	7	1:82,861	15,196
United Arab Emirates	6	1:1,527,046	51,993
Nicaragua	5	1:1,204,218	5,298
Ecuador	4	1:3,976,462	28,589
Egypt	4	1:22,983,938	62,368
Finland	4	1:1,374,176	50,379
Namibia	4	1:602,350	12,421
Nigeria	4	1:44,285,690	437,567
Afghanistan	3	1:10,717,728	35,605
Falkland Islands	3	1:1,044	221
Georgia	3	1:1,248,515	28,066
Hungary	3	1:3,272,092	62,568
Indonesia	3	1:44,083,065	698,220
Malaysia	3	1:9,831,408	269,765
Taiwan	3	1:7,814,915	41,694
Tanzania	3	1:17,647,204	107,932
Argentina	2	1:21,371,707	253,176
Cyprus	2	1:442,438	9,493
El Salvador	2	1:3,171,944	6,376
Luxembourg	2	1:290,271	8,611
Papua New Guinea	2	1:4,076,858	165,791
South Korea	2	1:25,620,128	4,175
Algeria	1	1:38,631,551	130,422
Antigua and Barbuda	1	1:99,171	2,137
Armenia	1	1:2,930,180	22,770
Bahrain	1	1:1,348,608	10,432
Bangladesh	1	1:159,356,773	26,077
Barbados	1	1:287,448	2,772
Bolivia	1	1:10,616,434	17,077
Brunei	1	1:418,731	3,893
Cameroon	1	1:20,769,068	227,406
Cayman Islands	1	1:63,893	2,384
Ethiopia	1	1:97,546,262	29,669
Greece	1	1:11,079,790	145,225
Guatemala	1	1:16,082,668	12,169
Haiti	1	1:10,683,907	24,607
Iran	1	1:76,782,524	277,718
Isle of Man	1	1:85,822	4,091
Jordan	1	1:8,842,437	26,010
Liberia	1	1:4,408,535	47,110
Lithuania	1	1:3,034,588	47,401
Macau	1	1:601,630	1,582
Malta	1	1:430,272	3,380
Micronesia	1	1:106,243	1,380
Myanmar	1	1:51,937,985	2,166
New Caledonia	1	1:276,223	10,363
Pakistan	1	1:178,643,885	213,220
Palau	1	1:21,643	223
Portugal	1	1:10,418,241	25,048
Qatar	1	1:2,357,999	76,403
Romania	1	1:20,077,870	89,414
Saudi Arabia	1	1:30,855,817	63,028
Trinidad and Tobago	1	1:1,363,975	22,013
Turkey	1	1:77,821,422	191,047
Uganda	1	1:39,039,279	258,887
United States Virgin Islands	1	1:110,375	6,934

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Ireland	228	1:19,429	2,323

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
England	2,795	1:8,721	1,314
Scotland	567	1:6,602	944
Wales	115	1:13,638	813
Guernsey	16	1:2,041	347
Isle of Man	5	1:10,854	1,028

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	10,403	1:4,827	604

The alternate forms: Bróck (1) are calculated separately.

Brock (25,465) may also be a first name.

Brock Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

Nick 'the brock,' i.e. the badger. 'Thei wenten about in brok skynnes': Heb. xi. 37 (Wyclif).

Robert le Brokk, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

William le Broc, Somerset, 1 Edward III: ibid.

Gilbert le Brok, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Henry le Brok, Devon, ibid.

Walter le Broc, Gloucestershire, ibid.

(a) Local 'at the brook'; v. Brook.

Laurence del Broc, Hertfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Joceus de la Brok, Kent, ibid.

Geoffrey de la Brok, Kent, ibid.

William del Brok, Essex, ibid.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Local. There is a Brock in East Renfrewshire. Henry Brok had provision of a canonry and prebend of Dunkeld in 1328 (Pap. Lett., II, p. 285). David Broik was tenant of the croft of Twa Half Dawis alias Petslawis Croft, Ardmanoch, 1504, and Alexander Brok was tenant of the Castletoun, Ardmanoch, in the same year (ER., XII, p. 660—661). Thomas Broik and Alexander Broik appear as tenants of Casteltoune, Arndmanoch, 1539 (ibid., XVII, p. 680). William Brok was witness in Glasgow, 1554 (Protocols, I), Robert Brok appears in Tilleaiblit, parish of Naver, 1611 (Brechin), Christian Brock in Dunfubert, parish of Edzell, 1625 (St. Andrews), and Waiter Brock, burgess of Glasgow, 1619 (Burgesses). Joannes Brock in parish of Kinkell, 1663 (Retours, Aberdeen, 370). The name was common in Edinburgh after 1609 (Edinb, Marr.).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(English) 1 a nickname from the Badger [Middle English brok, broc, Old English broc(c] Walter le Broc.—Hundred Rolls Henry le Brok.— do.

And go hunte hardiliche To hares and to foxes, To bores and to brokkes That breken doun myne hegges.— Piers Plowman, 3852-5. The cartere smoot and cryde as he were wood [mad], ‘Hayt, Brok! hayt, Scot! what spare ye for the stones?’ Chaucer, Cant. Tales, D 1542-3.

2 prob. occasionally confused with Brook, q.v. [Middle English brok(e, Old English bróc] William del Brok.—Hundred Rolls Geoffrey de la Brok.— do.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

“Badger” in North of England. Hence also Brockle- bank.

— South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(English) Dweller on the newly cleared and enclose land; dweller near the stream or marsh land; dweller at the sign of the badger; one who lived near the Brock River, in Lancashire.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Anglo-Saxon broc.-A badger. (See however Brockman). Also a medieval form of Brook. From one or other of these sources come the local surnames Brockbank, Brocksopp, Brockwell, Brockhurst, Brocklehurst, Brockway, &c.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

From the Saxon Broc, a badger. Broch, in Gaelic or Irish, Cornish-British and Welsh, has the same meaning.

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

From Broc, Anjou. Nigel, Ranulph, and Robert de Broc are mentioned in England 1189 (Rot. Pip.), and thenceforward the name frequently occurs.

— The Norman People (1874)

From the Old Norse, Broki; from the Swedish, Brock; from the Dutch, Broch, Brock; from the Flemish, Brockx; Bruch; in the Domesday Book, Broc; a personal name.

Robert le Broc and Ranulph de Broc in Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, King John

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

User-submitted Reference

The Brock surname means 'one from brook', a brook being 'swampy moorland' or 'low river lands' in one of the regional dialects of North-Eastern Germany. Over the centuries a number of spellings have evolved including Brook, Brok, Broek, Broeck, Brock, Bruck, Brauk and Broich (lower Rhein).

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• Religious Adherence in:IrelandIreland
• Political Affiliation in:United StatesUnited States

Brock Demographics

Average Male Brock Height

176.81 cmAverage male height (US): 175.3 cmSample size: 1,267 (2014)

Average Female Brock Height

162.55 cmAverage female height (US): 161.5 cmSample size: 173 (2014)

Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries

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Brock Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Brock Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Brock (Arabic: بروك) occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant: Bróck. Click here for further potential spellings of Brock.

How Common Is The Last Name Brock? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 5,249th most widely held last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 67,454 people. It is mostly found in The Americas, where 75 percent of Brock are found; 74 percent are found in North America and 73 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Brock is also the 31,548th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by 25,465 people.

This last name is most frequently used in The United States, where it is borne by 81,704 people, or 1 in 4,436. In The United States Brock is most prevalent in: Georgia, where 10 percent are found, Texas, where 9 percent are found and Florida, where 6 percent are found. Barring The United States this last name is found in 107 countries. It is also common in Germany, where 7 percent are found and England, where 5 percent are found.

Brock Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Brock has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name rose 785 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 197 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it declined 1 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it rose 413 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 28 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Brock Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the surname is chiefly Catholic (71%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Brock last name are 18.75% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 65.52% being registered with the party.

The amount Brock earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 8.93% more than the national average, earning 376,978 kr per year; in Peru they earn 49.97% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,698 per year; in South Africa they earn 0.09% more than the national average, earning R 237,840 per year; in Colombia they earn 11.45% less than the national average, earning $20,102,000 COP per year; in United States they earn 4.65% less than the national average, earning $41,141 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.15% more than the national average, earning $50,256 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A

Surname	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Bróck	93	1	/
Brocke	91	2,480	/
Brouck	91	639	/
Broock	91	188	/
Brockt	91	62	/
Broick	91	37	/
Brockx	91	33	/
Brozck	91	2	/
Brockc	91	1	/
Brrock	91	1	/
Brockh	91	1	/
Brok	89	4,066	/
Broc	89	1,770	/
Broucke	83	1,279	/
Broschk	83	552	/
Brotcke	83	58	/
Broocke	83	45	/
B'Rouck	83	14	/
Brocktt	83	1	/
Broucks	83	0	/
Brochke	83	0	/
Brook	80	30,699	/
Brack	80	12,159	/
Brouk	80	2,289	/
Brocq	80	553	/
Brokx	80	287	/
Broke	80	173	/
Brocx	80	140	/
Brokh	80	66	/
Brokk	80	19	/
Broic	80	17	/
Brocs	80	15	/
Brgoc	80	10	/
Brokt	80	7	/
Brrok	80	7	/
Brodc	80	4	/
Brotk	80	4	/
Broct	80	2	/
Brocc	80	1	/
Brokc	80	1	/
Brouc	80	1	/
Bruok	80	1	/
Brohc	80	1	/
Broik	80	0	/
Brocková	77	179	/
Brocksch	77	93	/
Broschke	77	44	/
Brockova	77	18	/
Brooke	73	21,966	/
Bracke	73	6,164	/
Braack	73	893	/
Brokke	73	762	/
Brackx	73	556	/
Broske	73	316	/
Brodke	73	55	/
Broc'h	73	41	/
Brotke	73	32	/
Broksø	73	22	/
Brouke	73	20	/
Breuck	73	13	/
Brokås	73	13	/
Broksh	73	12	/
Broukx	73	12	/
Broksz	73	10	/
B'Rouk	73	9	/
Brouks	73	6	/
Broocs	73	6	/
Broszk	73	6	/
Brookx	73	4	/
Broukh	73	4	/
Brroke	73	4	/
Hbrook	73	2	/
Brzack	73	2	/
Broucq	73	2	/
Brodks	73	1	/
Brookc	73	1	/
Vroock	73	1	/
Braïck	73	1	/
Broßke	73	1	/
Brokht	73	1	/
Brochc	73	1	/
Brocsh	73	1	/
Vrockh	73	0	/
Broyks	73	0	/
Brackt	73	0	/
Brouckova	71	5	/
Brak	67	61,504	/
Brac	67	5,267	/
Brox	67	3,038	/
Brog	67	624	/
Braucks	67	177	/
Broksch	67	95	/
Brocque	67	63	/
Brodtke	67	34	/
Braucke	67	17	/
Brokova	67	15	/
Broková	67	12	/
Brokowa	67	11	/
Brascke	67	9	/
B'Raïck	67	9	/
Brogsch	67	6	/
Brrooks	67	4	/
Brottke	67	4	/
Broosks	67	4	/
Braacke	67	2	/
Brookch	67	1	/
Brookke	67	1	/
Brackke	67	1	/
Brók	67	1	/
Braasck	67	0	/

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Brock Name Transliterations

Transliteration	ICU Latin	Percentage of Incidence
Brock in the Arabic language
بروك	brwk	-

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