Family name origins & meanings
- English : from a pet form of any of various personal names beginning with A-. It is generally a pet form of a pet form, i.e. from a pet form of Adam such as Ade or Aitkin + the Middle English hypocoristic suffix -cok (see Cocke), which was very commonly added to personal names in Middle English; compare, for example, Adcock, Alcock, Hancock, Wilcock.