<P> The English word "cock", meaning "rooster", is derived from the Anglo - Saxon word cocc, and a fourth possibility is that the surname came about as a nickname . </P> <P> Another possibility is that the name is of Norman origin . In the Battle of Hastings in October 1066, Alric Le Coq was one of Duke William's companions . Alric was said to have been a "a strutting (as a rooster struts) Norman soldier...who was nicknamed' le coq' and his children' little cockes ."' Le Coq could easily have been Anglicized to Cox as seen in the previous possibility . </P> <P> The surname Cox is also native to Belgian and Dutch Limburg . This name, like the related Cockx, is a degenerate form of Cocceius, a latinization of Kok (English: cook). </P> <P> Noticeably similar surnames include Cock, Cocks, Coxe, Coxen and Coxon . There is no evidence beyond similar spellings and phonetics that these surnames are related . Given that the origins of the Cox surname are uncertain, it is possible that these names developed as spelling variations, or that each of these names has an origin in a separate word and language . </P>

What is the origin of the name cox