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Cox Name Meaning
English: from Cocke in any the senses described + the
suffix -s denoting ‘son of’ or ‘servant of’.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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Name Distribution of Cox Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cox families
 1,131 - 2,260  378 - 1,130 |
 1 - 377  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cox families
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4,290 - 8,578 1,431 - 4,289 |
1 - 1,430 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cox families
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173 - 344 58 - 172 |
1 - 57 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cox Family Origin
Cox Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Cox
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Cox Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cox census records
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Cox Civil War Service Records
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