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The hancock Surname

hancock Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke).
  2. Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hancock Families in the US in 1920
Number of hancock families
 260-517
 87-259
 1-86
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