Submitted Name Revision History

Short form of both CORNELIS and CORNELIUS (for men) and CORNELIA (for women). It probably first started out as a contraction of a diminutive of these names, which might have been CORNEELKE, CORNELISKE, CORREKE or something similar. Also compare the related names COX, COCKY and COKKIE.

This name is predominantly masculine in the Netherlands, especially as an official name on birth certificates. For women, the name is now almost always an informal name.

Known Dutch bearers of this name include the singer Cock van der Palm (1936-2004), the soccer player Cock Rijkens (1952-2018) and the former politician Cock Kerling-Simons (b. 1929).