Frequency: (684)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: unexplained. Probably a habitational name from an unidentified place, possibly Hadleigh in Suffolk. The name has died out in England.
FOREBEARS: Nathanael Hadlock is recorded in Charlestown, MA, in 1638, having emigrated from Great Bromley in Essex, England. The family subsequently moved to Roxbury, MA.
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