Last Name HORROCKS

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Meaning	Local: Of Horrocks, probably the spot known as Horrocksford Hall, in the parish of Clitheroe, county Lancashire. The tendency of surnames to corrupt as they get further from their native home is shown in Horrox and Horrex, which are unknown in ancashire.

Origin	English, Irish, Falkland

Rank	11,981 (2000 US census)	9,228 (1990 US census)

Count	2,392 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

97.07%, or 2322 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.33%, or 8 total occurrences, as black,
0.33%, or 8 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.29%, or 7 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.71%, or 17 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.25%, or 30 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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