Mook
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Shortened of Dutch van Mook, a habitational name from a place called Mook, in Dutch Limburg
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mook is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 22K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 185K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
1,796 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shortened of Dutch van Mook, a habitational name from a place called Mook, in Dutch Limburg.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mook counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,796 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Mook | 227 |
| NL Netherlands | 803 | 1 in 22K | 803 | Mook | 59 |
| DE Germany | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Mook | 64 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Mook | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Mook | 65 |
| SG Singapore | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Mook | 19 |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | — | 3 |
1,796 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mook is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A disagreeable or incompetent person.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Übername: Körperumfang, meist zu mhd. māc/māge 'Blutsverwandter'; Bearer count 282.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Khmer, i, sound produced by striking something hard and solid
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In Filipino, fierce fighting; hand-to-hand battle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In iai, to close one's eyes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Friedrich Mookb. 1844DEGerman writer, theologian, egyptologist and explorer
- Charles C. Mookb. 1887USAmerican paleontologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Mookb. 1888DEGerman painter (1888-1944)
- Jan Mukb. 1901CZnot in their usual nameCzech secondary school teacher and historian (1901-1980)
- Wim Mookb. 1932NLDutch physicist (1932-2016)
- Jan Mukb. 1935CZnot in their usual nameCzech art historian (1935-1994)
- Kunewa Mookb. 1941USHawaiian kumu hula, musician, and voice actor
- Inhee Mook-Jungb. 1963KRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7085-4085)
- Petr Mukb. 1965CZnot in their usual nameCzech musician (1965–2010)
- Sevn Aliasb. 1996NLnot in their usual nameDutch rapper
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #18,843 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 803 | #2,225 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mook mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortened of Dutch van Mook, a habitational name from a place called Mook, in Dutch Limburg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mook have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Mook, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mook.
- Where is Mook most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mook is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mook?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,796 people named Mook in 2010, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mookThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mook”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.