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