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The HOOKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,479 2017 0.006 61
United States (1880 census) 4,716 1327 0.009 94
Change since 1880 +11763 -690 -0.003 -33
Other Countries
Australia 714 2265 0.004 44
United Kingdom 2,878 2157 0.006 63
Top States for HOOKER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,535 1699 0.007 74
North Carolina 1,489 843 0.018 185
California 1,132 2961 0.003 33
Florida 1,065 2052 0.007 67
Michigan 824 1428 0.008 83
Top States for HOOKER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 563 849 0.020 198
North Carolina 1,489 843 0.018 185
Vermont 94 1233 0.015 154
Tennessee 623 1483 0.011 110
South Carolina 434 1606 0.011 108

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HOOKER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOOKER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOOKER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOOKER by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOOKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HOOKER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HOOKER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HOOKER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 397 2.41
Mixed Race 246 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 73 0.44
Asian/Pacific 49 0.3
White (Caucasian) 12,030 73
Black/African American 3,685 22.36

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HOOKER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HOOKER in historical publications

HOOKER. 1 . See Hook, and the termination EE. 2. A maker of hooks.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HOOKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOOKER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HOOKER

The following words are slight variants of HOOKER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.