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The LOOK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,037 7596 0.002 15
United States (1880 census) 976 5568 0.002 20
Change since 1880 +3061 -2028 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 89 15750 0.001 5
United Kingdom 93 24325 0 2
Top States for LOOK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 517 779 0.041 406
California 451 9239 0.001 13
Illinois 347 5917 0.003 28
New York 305 9930 0.002 16
Michigan 279 6959 0.003 28
Top States for LOOK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 517 779 0.041 406
Hawaii 150 1041 0.012 124
Vermont 26 5480 0.004 43
Washington 230 5052 0.004 39
Wisconsin 208 6315 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of LOOK

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 LOOK 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 LOOK 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 LOOK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 536 13.28
Black/African American 224 5.55
Mixed Race 96 2.38
White (Hispanic) 61 1.51
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.87
White (Caucasian) 3,085 76.42

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

Meaning of LOOK in historical publications

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

Similar names to LOOK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOOK.

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 LOOK

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