# Cocker (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 486 |
| US rank (2010) | 44,270 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 635,279 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.4% (493 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. * The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cocker 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) | 79% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 14% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Similar surnames

Coker, Cowger, Coger, Cogger, Chesser, César, Caesar, Cicero, Cheshire, Cogar, Ceasar, Cesario.

## 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.