Cockerton
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English
Etymology
Habitational surname from an area of Darlington, in County Durham, from the name of a local river + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Cockerton (plural Cockertons)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cockerton is the 8539th most common surname in England, belonging to 740 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cockerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349.
- Forebears