Last Name POCKSON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Margaret. Pog was the earlier form of Peg, as Mog of Meg. As Megson became also Mockson (later Moxon), so Pogson became Pockson and Poxon. Why names in M should take P for their initial in the nickname form I cannot say.

Origin	English, Irish

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Belarus middle names

Belarus middle names form the same way as Russian ones, in part due to general common history of the Russian and Belarus nationalities, and in part due to very close integration of all nationalities during the Soviet Union times. Follow the