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crook Name Meaning and History

  1. from the Old Norse byname Krókr meaning ‘crook’, ‘bend’, originally possibly bestowed on a cripple or hunchback or a devious schemer, but in early medieval England used as a personal name.
  2. from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’, ‘bend’, borrowed into Middle English as a vocabulary word and applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks or a topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river or road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Durham named Crook from this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of crook Families in the US in 1920
Number of crook families
 73-144
 25-72		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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