as a Last Name
- 290,626
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cook
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 56th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 290,626
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Cook per capita
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