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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a bellicose person, from Middle English cock ‘to fight’, ‘to wrangle’ (a derivative of Old English cocc ‘cock’).
  • English : occupational name for someone who was skilled in building haystacks, from Middle English cock ‘heap of hay’ (of Old Norse origin, or from an Old English cocc ‘mound’, ‘hill’).
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kocher.

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