Cooksey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Cooksey, Worcestershire, meaning 'Cucu's island'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkʊksi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cooksey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 49K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K
- GHGhana≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Cooksey, Worcestershire, meaning 'Cucu's island'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cooksey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Cooksey | 3 |
| US United States | 6,740 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Cooksey | 338 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Cooksey | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Cooksey | 135 |
| EG Egypt | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Cooksey | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Cooksey | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Cooksey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a place in Worcs., so called from the gen. case of the OE personal name Cucu (perhaps a byname from OE cwicu lively) + OE eg island. Var.: Coot. Patrs.: Coot(e)s. Copain see Compagnon
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Virginia Earpb. 1821USnot in their usual name(1821-1893)
- Thomas Cookseyb. 1864GBchemist (1864-1948)
- David Cookseyb. 1940GBBritish businessman
- John Cookseyb. 1941USAmerican politician (1941–2022)
- Marian Cookseyb. 1943USAmerican politician
- Mark Cookseyb. 1966GBBritish musician
- Scott Cookseyb. 1972GBEnglish footballer (born 1972)
- Ernie Cookseyb. 1980GBBritish footballer (1980-2008)
- Elizabeth CookseyUSsociology researcher
- Jenalee CookseyUSassistant professor of clinical surgery
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,737 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.6K | #5,159 |
| 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 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Cooksey mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Cooksey, Worcestershire, meaning 'Cucu's island'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Cooksey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkʊksi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cooksey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Cooksey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cooksey.
- How common is the name Cooksey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,740 people named Cooksey in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cookseyThe 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, “Cooksey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.