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Surname Etymology and Meaning of COOK

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Old English coc (Latin coquus). There has been some confusion with Cocke.
2. Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name, but in some cases a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook).
3. In North America Cook has absorbed examples of cognate and semantically equivalent names from other languages, such as German and Jewish Koch.
4. Erroneous translation of French Lécuyer (see Lecuyer).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)