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cox Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Cocke in any the senses described + the suffix -s denoting ‘son of’ or ‘servant of’.
  2. Irish (Ulster): mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock’, ‘rooster’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The cox name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cox family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of cox Families in the US in 1920
Number of cox families
 1131-2260
 378-1130		 1-377
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 5319 - Messages: 11153
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Cox - Gran SadDove 0
Surname COX B.Rosado 13
Elijah Marion Cox labriere 8
searching for birthmother jill 1
Will of Jesse Cox, 1824, Jasper County, Georgia feltingfrenzy 0
Obit: Emmett Cox of Iowa (1920-2006) pbbut 0
Parents of Harrison B. Cox b. abt 1830 hayesgarylaura 1
William S. Cox, Herkimer Co., NY Nan_Lambert 0
Spc. Jason N. Cox of Elyria, Ohio, died June 16, 2008 RIP_08 0
More Cox ancestry neilmclean5 3
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