Given name & surname
Cook
“one who prepares meals for others”
Cook is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who prepares meals for others.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who prepares meals for others.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
Cook’s family of names
In English usage, Cook as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with KOK. Cook has a related form in Cooke. In German usage, Cook as a surname has a related form in KOOK.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 24
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Cookevariant · English
- Kucharzvariant · German
- Kuchařvariant · German
- Koxvariant · German
- Kookervariant · German
- Kookvariant · German
- Koockvariant · German
- Kokevariant · German
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- Kocmannvariant · German
- Kocksvariant · German
- Köckervariant · German
- Kockevariant · German
- Kockvariant · German
- Kochsvariant · German
- Kochmannvariant · German
- Köchlyvariant · German
- Kochlyvariant · German
- Köchlingvariant · German
- Köchlevariant · German
- Kochiusvariant · German
- Kochervariant · German
- Köchvariant · German
- Kochvariant · German, English
- Coccejusvariant · German
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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