Crook

13,742 people in the United States were counted with the surname Crook in the 2020 census, making it the 2,568th most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,742
Rank: 2,568th
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

The English surname is derived from the noun crook (“bend, hook”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Crook

Mackenzie Crook (born 1971)English actor, director, comedian and writer
Ian Crook (born 1963)English association football player
George Crook (1828–1890)United States Army general during American Civil War and Indian Wars
Eddie Crook (1929–2005)American boxer
Isabel Crook (1915–2023)Canadian anthropologist and educator

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

Surnames like Crook

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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.