Adcocks Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Behind the Adcocks surname stands Adcock, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way.

The family name meaning is “Little Adam”, the same as for Adcock. Adcocks adds a patronymic ending to Adcock, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. Related forms: Atcock.

Heraldry and the Adcocks name

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

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