Cooke
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Cooke is a surname of English and Irish origin derived from the occupation of cook and anglicisation of various Gaelic names. Variants include Cook and McCook.
Key facts
- Surname.name
- Cooke
- Surname.region
- England, Ireland
- Surname.variant forms
- Cook, McCook, MacCook, MacCuagh, MacCooge, Mac Dhabhóc, Mac Uag, Mac Cúg
- Surname.derivation
- Derived from the occupation of cook and anglicisation of various Gaelic names
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- family name
- Said to be same as
- Coke
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- different from
- Cook
- writing system
- Latin script
- native label
- Cooke
- Commons category
- Cooke (surname)
- Soundex
- C200
- Caverphone
- KK1111
- language of work or name
- English language
- P8168
- Şemsettin Günaltay
- Cologne phonetics
- 44
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Irish surname origin
- English surname origin
- People with the surname
- Fictional characters with the surname
- See also
- References
Cooke is a surname of English and Irish origin derived from the occupation of cook and anglicisation of various Gaelic names. Variants include Cook and McCook.
== Irish surname origin == Cooke (rather than Cook) is the usual spelling of the surname in Ireland, where it is found throughout all four provinces. In Connacht, Cooke is the modern anglicized form of the Gaelic name Mac Dhabhóc (also called Mac Uag). In Leinster, it is mainly an occupational name, long established there. In 1465, a law was passed that impacted Gaelic surnames in several counties in Leinster, specifically, Dublin, Meath, Louth and Kildare. The law required that "every Irishman, dwelling betwixt or amongst Englishmen... shall take to him an English surname of one town, as Sutton, Chester, Trim, Skryne, Cork, Kinsale; or colour, as white, black, browne; or art or science, as smith or carpenter; or office, as cooke, butler...". In Ulster, many Cookes descend from the MacCooks (MacCuagh) of Kintyre, a branch of the Clan MacDonald.
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