Origin and popularity of the name CROOKS

Origin

Crooks : English:: 1: habitational name from Crookes in Sheffield (Yorkshire) named with Old Norse krókr ‘hook bend’.2: variant of Crook with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Crocco : Italian: probably from Sicilian croccu ‘hook’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hooks crooks and the like or possibly a nickname for someone who wore a hook in place of a lost hand or arm.

Gaff : 1: English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used iron hooks or crooks from Old French gaffe ‘iron hook’.2: Irish (Offaly): from Mag Eochadha see McGough.3: German: from a derivative of the stem geb- (see Gaffke).

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