Surname Spotlight: Hiscock

Hiscock is an English surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of little Hick, a pet form of Richard (tule, hard)”.

Surname origin

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. Smith also lists Hiscox.

In the 2010 US Census, 791 Americans gave Hiscock as their last name (rank 29,740). It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Hiscock, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Research your Hiscock family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.