English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Cocker,
from the Cocker river (a Celtic name apparently derived from an
element kukro ‘winding’) + Old English ham
‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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