Cockerton

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from an area of Darlington, in County Durham, from the name of a local river + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Cockerton (plural Cockertons)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cockerton is the 8539^th most common surname in England, belonging to 740 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cockerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349.
• Forebears