# Cockayne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cockayne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 320 |
| US rank (2010) | 62,531 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 964,830 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.6% (312 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Cockin, Cokayne |

## Etymology

From Middle English cokayne (“cloud-cuckooland, Cockaigne”), a nickname for an idle dreamer.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cockayne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 97% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Chacon, Cason, Chism, Cosme, Casiano, Chesney, Ciccone, Cogan, Chiasson, Cookson, Cousin, Chaisson.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.