Dockery
English
Etymology
Two main origins:
- Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname.
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty.
Proper noun
Dockery (countable and uncountable, plural Dockerys)
- (countable) A surname.
- (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dockery is the 3089th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11644 individuals. Dockery is most common among White (65.97%) and Black/African American (29.31%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dockery”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 472.