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    The surname Cooks

    A surname, carried by 6,157 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C200

    Cooks: #5,640 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cooks #5,640, 6,157 people Cooks: #5,640 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cooks #5,640, 6,157 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cooks is more common than 96.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,157 people named Cooks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 50,145 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,526.

    #5,640
    rank among US surnames
    6,157
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,740)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,637Chalmers6,16650,072
    #5,638Weiland6,16350,097
    #5,639Trask6,16250,105
    #5,640Cooks6,15750,145

    Who is named Cooks

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    89% of people named Cooks identified as Black (not Hispanic), 5.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 89%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.2%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Cookss

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Xavier Cooks
      Australian basketball player (born 1995)
    • Brandin Cooks
      American football player, wide receiver, born 1993

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cooks

    Cooks has the Soundex code C200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Cooks?
    6,157 people in the United States had the surname Cooks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,145 Americans. It ranked 5,640th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cooks?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Cooks identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Cooks?
    Xavier Cooks, Australian basketball player (born 1995), followed by Brandin Cooks.
    Where is the surname Cooks most common?
    Wikidata records people named Cooks in the United States.
    Is the surname Cooks getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,526 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,157 in 2010, up 11%.