The surname Cockerham
An English place surname, carried by 4,830 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex C265
Origin
English origin
From the name of the River Cocker + Old English hām (“homestead”).
Cockerham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
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 4,830 people named Cockerham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,922 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,703.
Who is named Cockerham
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Cockerham identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
Cockerham has the Soundex code C265, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C265.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Cockerham come from?
- From the name of the River Cocker + Old English hām (“homestead”).
- How common is the surname Cockerham?
- 4,830 people in the United States had the surname Cockerham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,922 Americans. It ranked 6,943rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Cockerham?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Cockerham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Cockerham?
- Cockerham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Cockerham getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,703 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,830 in 2010, up 2.7%.
- What are other spellings of Cockerham?
- Cockrum.