Frequency: (146)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English cogge ‘small ship’, ‘cock boat’, Old French cogue, hence an occupational name for a boat or cog builder or, more likely, for a sailor or master of a cog.
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