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The COOKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,526 5740 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 190 20066 0 4
Change since 1880 +5336 +14326 +N/A +16
Other Countries
Australia 8 108180 0 0
United Kingdom 44 26479 0 1
Top States for COOKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,032 2830 0.005 49
California 551 6417 0.002 16
Louisiana 380 2055 0.009 85
Florida 336 7290 0.002 21
Georgia 291 3769 0.004 36
Top States for COOKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 380 2055 0.009 85
Mississippi 188 2453 0.007 66
Alabama 267 2911 0.006 60
South Carolina 208 3315 0.005 52
Texas 1,032 2830 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of COOKS

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 COOKS 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 COOKS 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 COOKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 326 5.9
Mixed Race 123 2.23
White (Hispanic) 101 1.83
Asian/Pacific 12 0.22
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.18
Black/African American 4,954 89.65

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

Meaning of COOKS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COOKS.

Similar names to COOKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COOKS.

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 COOKS

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