Brock

At the 2020 census, 58,368 Americans bore the surname Brock — 566th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,121.

By the numbers

People: 58,368
Rank: 566th
How common: 1 in 5,121
Per 100,000: 19.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brock described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Brock

Isaac Brock (1769–1812)British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
Bill Brock (1930–2021)politician and United States Navy sailor
Isaac Brock (born 1975)American musician
Napoleon Murphy Brock (born 1943)American singer, saxophonist and flautist
Sebastian Brock (born 1938)British syriacist
Lou Brock (1939–2020)American baseball player
Peter Brock (1945–2006)Australian racing driver
Dave Brock (born 1941)British musician

People named Brock with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brock

Also a first name

Brock has been given to 43,615 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.