Hooker

15,488 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hooker in the 2020 census, making it the 2,295th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,488
Rank: 2,295th
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

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

White, not Hispanic 68.0%
Black, not Hispanic 22.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hooker

John Lee Hooker (1917–2001)American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)English botanist and botanical illustrator
Steve Hooker (born 1982)Australian pole vaulter
Joseph Hooker (1814–1879)American Union Army general
Richard Hooker (1554–1600)English bishop and Anglican Divine
Destinee Hooker (born 1987)American volleyball player
Earl Hooker (1929–1970)American Chicago blues guitarist

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

Surnames like Hooker

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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.