Cockton Family History

from Middle English co(c)k (Old English cocc ‘heap hillock’ or ‘cock’) + toun ‘estate enclosure’ (Old English tūn) or from the personal names *Cocc(a) or Cok (see Cock) + toun.

The first elements are formally indistinguishable from each other: see Vocabulary of English Place-Names.

The name may be topographic for someone who lived near such an enclosure or toponymic for someone who lived at a place so named such as Coughton (Warwicks) recorded as Coctune in 1086.