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rook Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from the bird (Old English hroc), most likely given to a person with very dark hair or a dark complexion or to someone with a raucous voice.
  2. English: some early examples, such as Robert of ye Rook (London 1318) and Henry del Rook (Staffordshire 1332), point clearly to a local name of some kind. The first of these could be from a house sign, the second may be a variant of Rock 1.
  3. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with hrok, of uncertain origin; perhaps a cognate of 1 or from Middle High German rohen ‘to cry or yell (in battle)’ or Old High German ruoh ‘intent’.
  4. Perhaps an altered spelling of German Ruck.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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rook Family Facts

Distribution of rook Families in the US in 1920
Number of rook families
 48-94
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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