# Cooke (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cooke/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 33,223 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,056 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 9,293 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.3% (31,860 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cooke in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 78% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 16% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cooke in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Sikkim and The Bahamas.

## People named Cooke

- Olivia Cooke, British actress (born 1993)
- Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (1912–1996)
- Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
- Emma Cooke, American archer (1848–1929)
- Hope Cooke, American author, historian and former Queen of Sikkim
- Janet Cooke, American journalist
- Josh Cooke, American actor
- John Cooke, American rower
- Jennifer Cooke, American actress
- Keith Cooke, American martial artist and actor
- Cecil Cooke, Bahamian sailor
- Ian Cooke, Australian field hockey player

and 19 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Cook, Coco, Coke, Cock, Cooksey, Cooks, Cox, Casey, Chase, Case, Cash, Couch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.