First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
English: probably from a Middle English pet name formed from the initial A- of a personal name (e.g. Adam) + the hypocoristic suffix -cok (see, e.g., Adcock).