Cockerham
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (surname): Cockrum
Etymology edit
From the name of the River Cocker + Old English hām (“homestead”).
Proper noun edit
Cockerham (countable and uncountable, plural Cockerhams)
- A village and civil parish in Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4651).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Cockerham is the 6943rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4830 individuals. Cockerham is most common among White (79.03%) and Black/African American (16.81%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cockerham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Lancashire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Lancashire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English