Hook Family History
Hook Name Meaning
English (southern): from Middle English hoke, Old
English hoc ‘hook’, in any of a variety of senses: as a
metonymic occupational name for someone who made and sold hooks as
agricultural implements or employed them in his work; as a topographic
name for someone who lived by a ‘hook’ of land, i.e. the bend of a
river or the spur of a hill; or as a nickname (in part a survival of
an Old English byname) for someone with a hunched back or a hooked
nose. A similar ambiguity of interpretation presents itself in the
case of Crook. In some cases the surname may be habitational
from any of various places named Hook(e), from this word, as for
example in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey, Wiltshire, and
Worcestershire.Swedish (Hö(ö)k): nickname or
a metonymic occupational name from hök ‘hawk’, a soldier’s
name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hook
Name Distribution of Hook Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hook families
 129 - 256  44 - 128 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hook families
|
382 - 761 128 - 381 |
1 - 127 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hook families
|
41 - 79 14 - 40 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hook census records
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Hook Family Origin
Hook Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hook
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Hook Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hook census records
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