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Hancock

in Tennessee

There are 1,606 people with the last name "Hancock" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Hancock 452
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  1. is 448th most common Rich
  2. is 449th most common Poole
  3. is 450th most common Garrison
  4. is 451st most common Estes
  5. is 452nd most common Hancock
  6. is 453rd most common Blackwell
  7. is 454th most common Pitts
  8. is 455th most common Henley
  9. is 456th most common Lynn

Similar Names and Nicknames

Hance, Hanchett, Hanchey, Hancox, Hancher, Hancheck, Hanchak, Hancey, Hancook, Hankis

Most Common First Names for Hancock

John, James, Charles, William, David, Robert, Mary, Michael, Billy, Bobby

Meaning & History

English: from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke).

Dutch: from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.

FOREBEARS Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.

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