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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of three places: the first, Cockfield in Durham, is named from an Old English personal name Cocca + feld ‘open country’; the second, Cockfield in Suffolk, is named from an Old English personal name Cohha, with the same second element; and the third, Cuckfield in Sussex, is believed to be from an Old English personal name Cuca + feld.

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