as a Last Name
- 13,589
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Crook
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. from the Old Norse byname Krókr meaning ‘crook’, ‘bend’, originally possibly bestowed on a cripple or hunchback or a devious schemer, but in early medieval England used as a personal name. 2. from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’, ‘bend’, borrowed into Middle English as a vocabulary word and applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks or a topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river or road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Durham named Crook from this word.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,589
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Crook per capita
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