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The FOOKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 782 28674 0 3
United States (1880 census) 287 14741 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +495 -13933 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 254 6067 0.002 16
United Kingdom 405 10350 0.001 9
Top States for FOOKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 161 3916 0.003 30
Pennsylvania 91 16768 0.001 7
New Jersey 59 17554 0.001 7
Delaware 54 2709 0.007 69
Florida 50 32306 0.000 3
Top States for FOOKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 54 2709 0.007 69
Maryland 161 3916 0.003 30
Arkansas 27 9260 0.001 10
Kentucky 32 10218 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 91 16768 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FOOKS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOOKS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOOKS in Maryland than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOOKS by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOOKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOOKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FOOKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FOOKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 449 57.42
Black/African American 291 37.21
White (Hispanic) 15 1.92
Mixed Race 14 1.79
Asian/Pacific 8 1.02
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.64

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FOOKS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOOKS in historical publications

FOOKES. FOOKS. See Folk, Folkes. Perhaps, however, the High German wc,?, a fox.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FOOKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOOKS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FOOKS

The following words are slight variants of FOOKS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.