Hook

• As an English surname, from the noun hook.
• As a Swedish surname, from hök (“hawk”).
• As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Hoek; compare Vanhook.

Hook (countable and uncountable, plural Hooks)

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
   1. A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293). ^[1]
   2. A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005). ^[2]
   3. A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625). ^[3]
   4. A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
   5. A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254). ^[4]
   6. A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
   7. A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758). ^[5]
   8. A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
   9. A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711). ^[6]
3. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River. ^[7]

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hook is the 2680^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13437 individuals. Hook is most common among White (90.12%) individuals.

Hook (plural Hooks)

1. Alternative form of Hoek (“member of Dutch faction”)

• Hook Norton

• Khoo, OHKO

From Middle Low German hôk (“corner, angle”), from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. Compare the sense “small cluster of houses” in cognate Dutch hoek.

• IPA^(key): /hoːk/

Hook m (strong, genitive Hookes or Hooks, plural Höke)

1. (regional, Westphalia, chiefly in toponyms) a small cluster of farms, often no more than three to five

• The land shared by a Hook is typically called Esch.

From Middle Low German hôk, from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. More at hook.

Hook m (plural Hoken)

1. corner
2. angle
3. tip of land; headland; point; foreland