Yocom Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

In parish registers, Yocom often stands in for Yocum.

What does the surname Yocom mean?

The family name meaning is “Descendant of Jojakim (Yah makes to stand still)”, the same as for Yocum. According to the 2010 US Census, the Yocom surname had 1,653 bearers. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

How is Yocom related to Yocum?

Only a small detail separates the spellings: Yocom has “o” where Yocum has “u”. The same family of names includes Yokum and Yoakum.

Does every Yocom family have a crest?

Arms linked to Yocum and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Yocom report, with a museum-style coat of arms.