English (chiefly Yorkshire): habitational name from Laycock in West
Yorkshire or possibly from Lacock in Wiltshire. Both are recorded in
Domesday Book as Lacoc and seem to be named with a diminutive
of Old English lacu ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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