Popularity of the last name by country
Switzerland
All countries
- United Kingdom (616,660)
- United States (409,803)
- Australia (33,458)
- New Zealand (24,037)
- Netherlands (21,721)
- Canada (17,917)
- France (10,761)
- Ireland (9,217)
- Unknown country (6,049)
- Germany (2,466)
- Belgium (1,213)
- Switzerland (1,152)
- Italy (1,001)
- Norway (711)
- Denmark (660)
- Spain (528)
- India (480)
- Mexico (403)
- Colombia (387)
- Argentina (332)
- Russian Federation (322)
- Austria (286)
- China (270)
- South Africa (264)
- Egypt (227)
- Greece (208)
- Poland (173)
- Indonesia (165)
- Peru (159)
- Sweden (155)
- Algeria (153)
- Ukraine (153)
- Lebanon (135)
- Turkey (135)
- Brazil (123)
- Paraguay (115)
- Portugal (113)
- Estonia (111)
- Czech republic (103)
- Malta (103)
Origine of last name
COOK : 1: English: occupational name for a cook a seller of cooked meats or a keeper of an eating house from Middle English cok coke cook couk cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kew">Kew</a>.2: Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above) but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McCook">McCook</a>).3: Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’ such as German and Jewish <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Koch">Koch</a> Dutch <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kook">Kook</a> Polish Kucharz and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kucharczyk">Kucharczyk</a> Slovenian and Croatian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kuhar">Kuhar</a> North German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kuk">Kuk</a>.4: Americanized form of Slovenian Croatian and Polish <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kuk">Kuk</a>.5: Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Lécuyer ‘squire’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lecuyer">Lecuyer</a>).6: Americanized form of Korean and especially Chinese (Cantonese) <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kuk">Kuk</a> 5-9 or of its variant <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Kook">Kook</a> 3-6.
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