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    The surname Cocker

    A surname, carried by 486 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C260

    Cocker: #44,270 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Cocker #44,270, 486 people Cocker: #44,270 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Cocker #44,270, 486 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cocker is more common than 72.7% of them.

    Origin

    * 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”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 486 people named Cocker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 635,279 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 493.

    #44,270
    rank among US surnames
    486
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #41,596)

    Who is named Cocker

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

    79% of people named Cocker identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 14%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cocker

    Cocker has the Soundex code C260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C260.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Cocker come from?
    * 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…
    How common is the surname Cocker?
    486 people in the United States had the surname Cocker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 635,279 Americans. It ranked 44,270th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cocker?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cocker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Cocker getting more or less common?
    Less common. 493 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 486 in 2010, down 1.4%.