English: habitational name from any of three places: the first,
Cockfield in Durham, is named from an Old English personal name
Cocca + feld ‘open country’; the second, Cockfield in
Suffolk, is named from an Old English personal name Cohha, with
the same second element; and the third, Cuckfield in Sussex, is
believed to be from an Old English personal name Cuca +
feld.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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