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Wainwright Name Meaning
English (Lancashire Yorkshire and Cheshire): occupational name for a maker of carts or wagons from Middle English wain-wright ‘wagon-builder cart-maker’ (Old English wægn-wyrhta).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cartwright, Arkwright, Boatwright, Wheelwright, Wright, Wainright
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Walker Name Meaning
English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller from Middle English walker Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk tread’) ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames
Waller, Walke, Walmer, Wicker, Acker, Galler, Hawker, Walter, Walzer
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Warren Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin Werin a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring . English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime France named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain. Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane Warner ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Farren, Warden, Carden, Garret, Barre, Warner, Waren, Maren, Carrel
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Willcock Name Meaning
See Wilcock .
Wilcock Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Wilcoc a pet form of William (composed of the elements Will 1 + the hypocoristic suffix -cok; see Cocke ).
Cocke Name Meaning
English:: nickname from Middle English cok (Old English and Old French coc) ‘rooster’. patronymic from the Old French and Middle English personal name Cok of uncertain origin but perhaps derived from the word in 1 above. occupational name from Middle English cok ‘cook’ a variant of Cook . in addition the name may occasionally also have been topographic or habitational referring to a house or inn distinguished by a sign depicting a rooster (see 1 above). Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Willock, Wilcock, Hillock, Willcox, Willick, Billock, Wallock
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Clayton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in Yorkshire Lancashire Staffordshire and Sussex named Clayton from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Layton, Cayton, Claxton, Claydon, Clanton, Calton, Claytor, Caton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Coatham Name Meaning
From Coatham in Kirkleatham (NR Yorks).
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Cottam, Botham, Cottom, Odham, Gotham, Cothran, Bothum, Hotham, Coram
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Cobb Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe Cobba or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’ used to denote a large man. Irish: shortened form of McCobb a patronymic from the personal name Hob an English pet form of Robert .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lobb, Babb, Job, Corby, Corn, Dobb, Robb, Codd, Bobo, Hobby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Coburn Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Cockburn reflecting the pronunciation. Altered form of German Kobern.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cobern, Cobourn, Cogburn, Corn, Osburn, Cober, Cockburn, Thoburn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Cook Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook a seller of cooked meats or a keeper of an eating house from Middle English cok coke cook couk cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew . Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above) but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ). Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’ such as German and Jewish Koch Dutch Kook Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar North German Kuk . Americanized form of Slovenian Croatian and Polish Kuk . Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Lécuyer ‘squire’ (see Lecuyer ). Americanized form of Korean and especially Chinese (Cantonese) Kuk 5-9 or of its variant Kook 3-6.
Cooke Name Meaning
English and Irish: variant of Cook
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rook, Hook, Look, Coop, Crook, Kook, Coon, Cool, Tock, Book
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Roper Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English roper(e) ‘maker or seller of rope’. See Roop . North German (Röper): occupational name for a town crier from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rōpen ‘to call’.
Roop Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Roep: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Robrecht. Americanized form of German Rupp . English (East Yorkshire): nickname from Middle English rop(e) ‘rope’ possibly for a maker or seller of rope. Compare Roper . This surname is now rare in Britain.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rover, Roder, Roker, Koper, Raper, Royer, Soper, Roger, Reder, Roser
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts