Cock Family History
Cock Name Meaning
from Middle English cok ‘cook’ a possible variant of Cook if shortening of the vowel of Old English cōc ‘cook’ occurred before it developed to Middle English coke couk cook. In examples of Coc and Cok below the vowel may be short or long so they could alternatively be cited under Cook .from Middle English cok (Old English and Old French coc) ‘male bird cock’ (especially the male of the domestic fowl) perhaps used humorously of a leader or chief man in a social group though this sense is not recorded before the 16th century in
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016