Charnock
English
editEtymology
editTwo origins:
- English habitational surname from the villages of Heath Charnock and Charnock Richard, in Lancashire, probably of Celtic origin and related to the name Cairns.
- Americanized spelling of Polish Czarnoch or Slovak Černok; see Cernik.
Proper noun
editCharnock (plural Charnocks)
- A surname.
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Charnock is the 40494th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 540 individuals. Charnock is most common among White (95.0%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Charnock”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319.