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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch coker ‘case’, ‘sheath’, ‘cover’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such articles or for a messenger or official who carried letters or documents in a case.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a cook, from an agent derivative of coken ‘to cook’.

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