Last name origins & meanings:
- English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked
meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English cōc
(Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with
Cocke.
- Irish and Scottish: usually identical in
origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook).
- In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and
semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and
Jewish Koch.
- Erroneous translation of French
Lécuyer (see Lecuyer).
- Francis Cooke (died 1663) and his eldest son John were passengers
on the Mayflower in 1621; they were joined two years later by
Francis’s wife and other children. In the words of William Bradford,
when he died he had ‘lived to see his children’s children have
children’.
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