Dockery

English

Etymology

Two main origins:

• Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname.
• Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty.

Proper noun

Dockery (countable and uncountable, plural Dockerys)

1. (countable) A surname.
2. (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
   1. An unincorporated community in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri, United States.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dockery is the 3089^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11644 individuals. Dockery is most common among White (65.97%) and Black/African American (29.31%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dockery”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 472.