The Hammock surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,222 people carried this name — #4,877 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 40,800 people counted. That is down 1% from 7,287 in 2000.

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In print

Hammock in American newspapers,
1909.

Newspaper page from The Spanish Fork Press carrying the name Hammock
The Spanish Fork Press 1909-12-16
Newspaper page from The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter carrying the name Hammock
The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter 1909-07-16

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Hammock in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.

108 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hammock. The most, 32, date from the 1910s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 37
Victoria 31
Queensland 19
South Australia 8
Western Australia 6
Tasmania 5
ACT (Canberra) 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hammock.

Who carried it

People named Hammock,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Cicero C. Hammock 1823–1890 · politician
  • Dick Hammock 1923–1965 · baseball player
  • Dick Hammock 1924–1965 · baseball player
  • Charles Hammock 1941–2014 · politician
  • Dayle Hammock 1947–2024 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Hammock,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States360 records

360 records of the Hammock name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 253
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 87
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 6
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • Sacramento County historic burials 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Oren R. Hammock

    Born 1914 in Tennessee. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; lumberman from Overton County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Shilo Cemetery, Crawford, Tennessee.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jerry Wendell Hammock

    Born 1947; from Westmoreland, Tennessee. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Long An, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record James Hammock

    Arrived at New York in 1872 aboard the City of Baltimore from Liverpool, aged 21; laborer. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 360 records for Hammock in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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