Cocking Family History
Cocking Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from Cocking in Sussex. The placename denoted ‘(the settlement of) Cocking's people’ from the Old English personal name Cocca + the group-name suffix -ingas. patronymic from either of two Middle English personal names Cok(k)ing (Old English Coccing) or Cokin (probably Old French in origin) both of which are pet forms of Cocke variant of Cockayne .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022