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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Worcestershire named Cooksey, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Cucu (perhaps a byname from Old English cwicu ‘lively’) + Old English ēg ‘island’.

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