Cocke Family History
Cocke Name Meaning
nickname from Middle English cok ‘cock’, ‘male
bird or fowl’ (Old English cocc), given for a variety of
possible reasons. Applied to a young lad who strutted proudly like a
cock, it soon became a generic term for a youth and was attached with
hypocoristic force to the short forms of many medieval personal names
(e.g. Alcock, Hancock, Hiscock,
Mycock). The nickname may also have referred to a natural
leader, or an early riser, or a lusty or aggressive individual. The
surname may also occasionally derive from a picture of a rooster used
as a house sign.from the Old English personal name Cocca,
derived from the word given in 1 above or from the homonymous
cocc ‘hillock’, ‘clump’, ‘lump’, and so perhaps denoting a fat
and awkward man. This name is not independently attested, but appears
to lie behind a number of place names and (probably) the medieval
personal name Cock, which was still in use in the late 13th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cocke Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cocke families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cocke families
|
32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cocke Family Origin
Cocke Immigration Information
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Cocke Family Occupations
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