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Cook

in New York

There are 7,842 people with the last name "Cook" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Cook 85
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  1. is 81st most common Cooper
  2. is 82nd most common Wood
  3. is 83rd most common Chan
  4. is 84th most common Obrien
  5. is 85th most common Cook
  6. is 86th most common Henry
  7. is 87th most common Grant
  8. is 88th most common Morgan
  9. is 89th most common Perry

Similar Names and Nicknames

Cooke, Couch, Cooksey, Cooks, Cookson, Coscia, Cocco, Cocke, Cookman, Chokshi

Most Common First Names for Cook

Robert, David, John, William, James, Michael, Thomas, Richard, Donald, Joseph

Meaning & History

English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English cōc (Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with Cocke.

Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook).

In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and Jewish Koch.

Erroneous translation of French Lécuyer (see Lecuyer).

FOREBEARS Francis Cooke (died 1663) and his eldest son John were passengers on the Mayflower in 1621; they were joined two years later by Francis's wife and other children. In the words of William Bradford, when he died he had ‘lived to see his children's children have children’.

Recent Searches for "Cook" in New York

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Robert Cook, NY (97 searches)
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