Fishlock

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Fishlake, in South Yorkshire, from Old English fisċ (“fish”) + lacu (“pool, pond”).

Proper noun

Fishlock (plural Fishlocks)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fishlock is the 7860^th most common surname in England, belonging to 820 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fishlock”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 578.