Cockerham
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Cockerham, Lancashire; 'homestead or enclosure on the (river) Cocker', a Celtic river-name meaning literally 'crooked'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑkɝˌhæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cockerham is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Cockerham, Lancashire; 'homestead or enclosure on the (river) Cocker', a Celtic river-name meaning literally 'crooked'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cockerham is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Cockerham, Lancashire; first attested John de Kokerham 1349 FrY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kirby Lee Cockerhamb. 1893USAmerican entomologist (1893-1973)
- Fred Cockerhamb. 1905USAmerican fiddler and banjoist (1905-1980)
- C. Clark Cockerhamb. 1921USAmerican genetic scientist
- William Cockerhamb. 1939American sociologist
- Angela Cockerhamb. 1976USAmerican politician
- Ben Cockerhamb. 1980American musician (born 1980)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,286 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #26,607 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cockerham mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Cockerham, Lancashire; 'homestead or enclosure on the (river) Cocker', a Celtic river-name meaning literally 'crooked' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Cockerham?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑkɝˌhæm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cockerham have the most bearers?
- Cockerham is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Cockerham?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cockerhamThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cockerham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.