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    The surname Cockayne

    An English nickname surname, carried by 320 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C250

    Cockayne: #62,531 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Cockayne #62,531, 320 people Cockayne: #62,531 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Cockayne #62,531, 320 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cockayne is more common than 61.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

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

    Cockayne is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 320 people named Cockayne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 964,830 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 312.

    #62,531
    rank among US surnames
    320
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #60,390)

    Who is named Cockayne

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Cockayne identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cockin
    • Cokayne

    Cockayne has the Soundex code C250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C250.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cockayne come from?
    From Middle English cokayne (“cloud-cuckooland, Cockaigne”), a nickname for an idle dreamer.
    How common is the surname Cockayne?
    320 people in the United States had the surname Cockayne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 964,830 Americans. It ranked 62,531st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cockayne?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Cockayne identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Cockayne?
    Cockayne is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Cockayne getting more or less common?
    More common. 312 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 320 in 2010, up 2.6%.
    What are other spellings of Cockayne?
    Cockin and Cokayne.