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HOOK

Surname statistics for Hook

There are approximately 8,836 people named Hook in the UK. That makes it the 1,209th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 140 are named Hook.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)88361209N/A140
United Kingdom (1881 census)443510110.015148
Change since 1881+4401-198-0.001-8
Other Countries
United States131712516N/A49
Australia10751537N/A66

Politics

People with the surname Hook are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Liberal Democrat.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Hook are:

  1. Liberal Democrat (3)
  2. Conservative (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Hook
Michael Hook
Christopher Hook
Andrew Hook
John Hook
James Hook
Peter Hook
Richard Hook
Robert Hook
Martin Hook
Paul Hook
Jonathan Hook
Alan Hook
Brian Hook
Keith Hook
Nicholas Hook
Gary Hook
Anthony Hook
Simon Hook
Ian Hook

Top female forenames

Susan Hook
Carol Hook
Michelle Hook
Margaret Hook
Linda Hook
Alison Hook
Samantha Hook
Sharon Hook
Christine Hook
Sally Hook
Angela Hook
Elaine Hook
Catherine Hook
Mary Hook
Rosemary Hook
Janice Hook
Julie Hook
Lynn Hook
Joanne Hook
Lisa Hook

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.