Släkthistoria för Cockin
Cockin Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Cok (see Cock) + the diminutive suffix -in. In its variant forms the name is difficult to separate from (2) -3 and (4).from Middle English cokin (Old French coquin) ‘scoundrel’. possibly from Middle English *cokin apparently a variant of coket ‘seal’ also ‘bread made from fine flour’. See Cockett and compare Ralph Cocunbred 1209 in Leicester Freemen Register Adam Cokinbred 1265 and Ralph Cokinbred 1299 in Leicester Freemen Register . Cockin bread is presumably the same as Middle English cocket bread. see Cockayne. see Cocking.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
