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    The surname Crooks

    A surname, carried by 10,244 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C620

    Crooks: #3,489 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Crooks #3,489, 10,244 people Crooks: #3,489 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Crooks #3,489, 10,244 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crooks is more common than 97.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,244 people named Crooks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 30,139 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,806.

    #3,489
    rank among US surnames
    10,244
    people in 2010
    3.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #3,341)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,480Motley10,27430,051
    #3,481Ballesteros10,26130,089
    #3,482Lindley10,26030,092
    #3,483Caputo10,25730,101
    #3,484Steed10,25030,122
    #3,485Penny10,24930,124
    #3,486Hiatt10,24730,130

    Who is named Crooks

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

    75% of people named Crooks identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Crookss

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Thomas Matthew Crooks
      Attempted assassin of Donald Trump (2003–2024)
    • Richard Crooks
      American opera tenor (1900–1972)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Crooks

    Crooks has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Crooks?
    10,244 people in the United States had the surname Crooks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 30,139 Americans. It ranked 3,489th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Crooks?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Crooks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Crooks?
    Thomas Matthew Crooks, attempted assassin of Donald Trump (2003–2024), followed by Richard Crooks.
    Where is the surname Crooks most common?
    Wikidata records people named Crooks in the United States.
    Is the surname Crooks getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,806 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,244 in 2010, up 4.5%.