English (Somerset and Devon): habitational name from Coxley,
Somerset, named from Old English coc ‘cook’ + leah
‘woodland clearing’. Mills notes that the wife of a cook of the royal
household is recorded in Domesday Book (1086) as holding lands near
Wells in Somerset.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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