How common is the surname Kok?

1,622 people in the United States had the surname Kok in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,349 Americans. It ranked 17,398th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kok?

In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Kok identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Kok getting more or less common?

More common. 1,408 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,622 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Kok

An occupational surname, carried by 1,622 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kok is more common than 89.3% of them.

Origin

* As a Dutch surname, from kok (“cook”). Doublet of Cook and Koch. * As a Chinese surname, spelling variant of Guo

Kok is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,622 people named Kok in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 190,349 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,408.

#17,398

rank among US surnames

1,622

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+15.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,216)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,392	Slavens	1,623	190,231
#17,398	Olaughlin	1,622	190,349
#17,406	Beaudette	1,621	190,466

Who is named Kok

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

63% of people named Kok identified as white (not Hispanic), 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 63%
Asian and Pacific Islander 32%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Kok

Kok has the Soundex code K200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K200.

Questions

Where does the surname Kok come from?: * As a Dutch surname, from kok (“cook”). Doublet of Cook and Koch. * As a Chinese surname, spelling variant of Guo
How common is the surname Kok?: 1,622 people in the United States had the surname Kok in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,349 Americans. It ranked 17,398th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kok?: In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Kok identified as white (not Hispanic), and 32% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
What type of surname is Kok?: Kok is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Kok getting more or less common?: More common. 1,408 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,622 in 2010, up 15%.