Cook

290,386 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cook in the 2020 census, making it the 66th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,029.

By the numbers

People: 290,386
Rank: 66th
How common: 1 in 1,029
Per 100,000: 97.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cook described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 78.9%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Cook

James Cook (1728–1779)British explorer, cartographer and naval officer
Tim Cook (born 1960)American business executive, Apple CEO
Robin Cook (1946–2005)British Labour Party politician
Rachael Leigh Cook (born 1979)American actress and model
Joseph Cook (1860–1947)6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914
A. J. Cook (born 1978)Canadian actress
Stephen Cook (born 1939)American-Canadian computer scientist
Thomas Cook (1808–1892)English founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son

People named Cook with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cook

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.