Maddocks: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

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

Family name meaning

Maddocks is a branch of the Maddox name tree. At root, the name means “Son of Madog”.

Maddocks adds -cks to the root of Maddox, a common way of forming related surnames. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Maddock, Madox and Mattox. Maddocks ranked 23,675 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,070 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

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