Cockburn

English

Alternative forms

• Coburn

Etymology

Scottish habitational surname, from Old English cocc (“cock, rooster”) + burne (“stream, brook, river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊbəɹn/, /ˈkoʊkbəɹn/

Proper noun

Cockburn (countable and uncountable, plural Cockburns)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A small town and locality in the outback of South Australia, on the border with New South Wales.
3. The City of Cockburn, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia, named after Cockburn Sound and Sir George Cockburn.

Descendants

• → Translingual: cockburni

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cockburn is the 28525^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 836 individuals. Cockburn is most common among White (78.95%) and Black/African American (13.4%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cockburn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 349.