Cooke

Cooke is the 1,096th most common surname in the United States, shared by 31,451 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,504.

By the numbers

People: 31,451
Rank: 1,096th
How common: 1 in 9,504
Per 100,000: 10.5

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 Cooke described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Cooke

Sam Cooke (1931–1964)American singer and songwriter
Olivia Cooke (born 1993)British actress
Nicole Cooke (born 1983)Welsh cyclist
Baden Cooke (born 1978)Australian cyclist
Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1912–1996)American tennis player
William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879)English inventor
Christian Cooke (born 1987)English actor
Howard Cooke (1915–2014)Jamaican politician

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

Surnames like Cooke

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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.