Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Cocke in any the senses described + the suffix -s denoting ‘son of’ or ‘servant of’.
  • Irish (Ulster) : mistranslation of Mac Con Coille (‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’), as if formed with coileach ‘cock’, ‘rooster’.