Wilcock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Will, with the suffix -cock, a pet-form ending added to personal names in the Middle Ages
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Wilcock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 398K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.5M
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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 States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 398K (inferred from the name graph)
835 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
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 Will, with the suffix -cock, a pet-form ending added to personal names in the Middle Ages.
Cited for this meaning 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)Wilcock 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 835 | 1 in 398K | 835 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 34 | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
835 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Wilcock 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 the personal name Wilcok; first attested Wilcok 1246 AssLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, medieval given name, a dim. of Will i with the addition of the hypocoristic suffix -cock (see Cock i). Wilkin Engl ish: from a medieval given name, a short form of Will with the addition of the hypocoristic suffix -kin (of
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
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)- Clifford Wilcockb. 1898GBBritish politician (1898-1962)
- J. Rodolfo Wilcockb. 1919ARArgentine writer (1919-1978)
- Ken Wilcockb. 1934GBBritish sprinter (1934–2025)
- Gordon Wilcockb. 1950GBEnglish cricketer (born 1950)
- Dennis Wilcockb. 1953GBBritish singer
- William S.D. Wilcockb. 1963USAmerican marine geophysicist
- David Wilcockb. 1973USAmerican religious writer (1973-2026)
- Greg Wilcockb. 2000AUAustralian diplomat
- Robin WilcockCAactor
- Andrew WilcockGBresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wilcock mean, and where does it come from?
- From Will, with the suffix -cock, a pet-form ending added to personal names in the Middle Ages. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wilcock have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 835 people named Wilcock, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wilcock most common?
- Wilcock is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 398 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wilcock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 835 people named Wilcock in 2010, about 1 in 398 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilcockThe 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, “Wilcock”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.