Cocke Family History

English:: nickname from Middle English cok (Old English and Old French coc) ‘rooster’. patronymic from the Old French and Middle English personal name Cok of uncertain origin but perhaps derived from the word in 1 above.

occupational name from Middle English cok ‘cook’ a variant of Cook. in addition the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational referring to a house or inn distinguished by a sign depicting a rooster (see 1 above).

Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.