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Cocke

in the US

There are 1,222 people with the last name "Cocke" in the United States.

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Cocke 18,462
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  1. is 18,458th most common Wilkening
  2. is 18,459th most common Zambrana
  3. is 18,460th most common Aguado
  4. is 18,461st most common Baine
  5. is 18,462nd most common Cocke
  6. is 18,463rd most common Duchene
  7. is 18,464th most common Heitkamp
  8. is 18,465th most common Kinnaird
  9. is 18,466th most common Kuss

Similar Names and Nicknames

Cook, Cooke, Couch, Cockrell, Cockerham, Cooksey, Cooks, Cockrum, Cockerill, Cockrill

Most Common First Names for Cocke

William, John, James, Robert, Michael, Thomas, Mary, David, Richard, Charles

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. 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.

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