Hooks
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Hook, either in the topographic sense or a patronymic from the nickname
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hʊks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hooks is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Hook, either in the topographic sense or a patronymic from the nickname. This surname is also established in northern Ireland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hooks counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 17K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charles Hooksb. 1768USAmerican politician (1768-1843)
- Mitchell Hooksb. 1923USAmerican illustrator (1923-2013)
- Benjamin Hooksb. 1925USAmerican civil rights leader (1925-2010)
- Robert Hooksb. 1937USactor, producer and activist (born 1937)
- Linda Hooksb. 1952GBBritish actor and model
- Roland Hooksb. 1953USAmerican football player
- Jan Hooksb. 1957USAmerican actress, comedian (1957-2014)
- Kevin Hooksb. 1958USAmerican actor and director
- Galen Hooksb. 1985USAmerican choreographer
- Jane Hooksfilm producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,034 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #222,622 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #336,997 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #160,658 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #22,918 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hooks mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Hook, either in the topographic sense or a patronymic from the nickname.
- Where does the name Hooks come from?
- variant of Hook, either in the topographic sense or a patronymic from the nickname. This surname is also established in northern Ireland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hooks?
- A machine transcription gives /hʊks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hooks have the most bearers?
- Hooks is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hooks?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hooksThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hooks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.