The Mock surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 15,847 people carried this name — #2,301 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 18,600 people counted. That is up 4% from 15,208 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
796 people named Mock live in Switzerland.
They live in 22 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 115 people named Mock.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 62 people named Mock live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Mock in American newspapers,
1900–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 902,996 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mock,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johann Samuel Mock 1687–1737 · court painter -
Ämilian Mock 1712–1784 · monk -
Georg Joseph Mock d. 1791 · pastor
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Johann Mock d. 1727 · painter
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Elsa Mock d. 1590
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Johann Jakob Mock 1776–1824 · draftsperson
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mock.
- Mlynarczyk 357 · U.S. census
- Mo 3,983 · U.S. census
- Moan 702 · U.S. census
- Moch 540 · U.S. census
- Mochel 305 · U.S. census
- Mochon 113 · U.S. census
- Mockel 107 · U.S. census
- Mode 1,035 · U.S. census
- Modena 381 · U.S. census
- Modeste 834 · U.S. census
- Modesti 170 · U.S. census
- Modesto 1,800 · U.S. census
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