Pollock
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person from Pollock, Strathclyde, probably 'little pool' or 'little pit'; (ii) a different form of Pollack (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈpɑlək/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Pollock is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 23,310 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 8K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 8.1Kfew records
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 States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 470 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
23,310 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Pollock
- English:/ˈpɑlək/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) person from Pollock, Strathclyde, probably 'little pool' or 'little pit'; (ii) a different form of Pollack.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pollock is found
(measured from records)Pollock 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 | — | 23,310 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Pollock | 470 |
| GB United Kingdom | #832 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 4.5K | Pollock | 204 |
| CA Canada | #821 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Pollock | 193 |
| AU Australia | #712 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Pollock | 175 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Pollock | 51 |
| IE Ireland | #802 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Pollock | 50 |
| NZ New Zealand | #699 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Pollock | 81 |
23,310 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Pollock is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Location name from Upper Pollock in Renfrewshire (Brittonic polloc, ‘little pools’). Peter son of Fulbert adopted de Pollok around 1177.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, from Upper Pollock, Renfrew; first attested Peter, John de Pollok c1172–8, 1304 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A location name from the lands of Upper Pollock (Brittonic polloc, ‘little pools’) in Renfrewshire. On being granted the land, around 1177, Peter son of Fulbert adopted the name de Pollok. In the late Middle Ages, the Pollocks were a mercantile family, also engaged in law practice. James Knox Polk, 11th President of the USA, was a descendant of a Pollock who emigrated to America in colonial days.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, Either of two lean, white marine food fishes, of the genus Pollachius, in the cod family.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Jackson, artist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Jackson Pollockb. 1912USAmerican painter (1912–1956)
- Griselda Pollockb. 1949GBBritish art historian
- Mike Pollockb. 1965USAmerican voice actor
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pollock mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person from Pollock, Strathclyde, probably 'little pool' or 'little pit'; (ii) a different form of Pollack. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Pollock?
- In the etymology graph, Pollack and Polack are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pollock?
- In English /ˈpɑlək/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pollock?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pollock, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pollock. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pollock?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,310 people named Pollock in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Pollock compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Pollock is the 699th most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pollockThe 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, “Pollock” — ranked 1420th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.