The Yocum surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,504 people carried this name — #5,353 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 45,500 people counted. That is up 3% from 6,338 in 2000.

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In print

Yocum in American newspapers,
1922.

Newspaper page from St. Tammany Farmer carrying the name Yocum
St. Tammany Farmer 1922-02-11
Newspaper page from The Independent-reporter carrying the name Yocum
The Independent-reporter 1922-03-23
Newspaper page from St. Tammany Farmer carrying the name Yocum
St. Tammany Farmer 1922-02-25

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 21,651 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Yocum,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Seth Hartman Yocum
    Seth Hartman Yocum 1834–1895 · politician
  • Albert Duncan Yocum 1869– · teacher
  • Lawson Edwin Yocum 1890–1977 · botanist
  • Lewis Yocum 1947–2013 · physician

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Yocum,
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 States377 records

377 records of the Yocum name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 238
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 100
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 17
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 15
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
  • 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 Lloyd G. Yocum

    Born 1924 in Missouri. Enlisted 1945 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; farmer from Andrew County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Stanberry Cemetery, Missouri.

    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 George Kent Yocum

    Born 1946; from Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Marine Corps, warehouse clerk; died in an accident 1967 in Quang Nam, 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 Charles Yocum

    Arrived at New York in 1878 aboard the State of Indiana from Glasgow and Larne, aged 42; merchant.

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

Showing 3 of 377 records for Yocum in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · 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) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). 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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