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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: from Cocke in any the senses described + the suffix -s denoting ‘son of’ or ‘servant of’.
  2. 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’.

This name appears in the following lists: Alliterative Names, Presidents' Kids