Pook
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE pūca 'elf, sprite, goblin'; first attested William Puch 1166 P (Nf)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pook is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈730 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE pūca 'elf, sprite, goblin'; first attested William Puch 1166 P (Nf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pook 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 1.4K | Pook | 124 |
| DE Germany | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Pook | 66 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Pook | 26 |
| US United States | 272 | 1 in 1.2M | 290 | Pook | 144 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Pook | 69 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Pook | 30 |
| EE Estonia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 18 | Pook | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Pook 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 barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Khmer, testicle coL; tumor; blister; bump; bruise. testicles (vulg.). n&ulU sparrow egg; child (mjs.), n&91 duck egg. testicles. (T.) boiled eggs. n&WfJJ rotten egg. infertile egg. [nUlUn& yolk of an egg. [fnunft to sit on eggs
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, to puff up, to swell up, to be come inflated
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Dutch, poker (stick to kindle the fire in a fireplace)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, place; region; site; location
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)
- Samuel M. Pookb. 1804USAmerican naval architect
- Edmund Walter Pookb. 1851British man acquitted of murder
- Fritz Pookb. 1857DEGerman stage actor and theater director (1857-1944)
- Hermann Pookb. 1901DEGerman dentist and SS officer, superior of dentists in concentration camps (1901-1983)
- John Pookb. 1942GBBritish writer
- David Pookb. 1955GBEnglish footballer (born 1955)
- Jocelyn Pookb. 1960GBComposer, pianist
- Volker Pookb. 1969DEGerman university teacher
- Carolin Pookb. 1981DEGerman musician
- Michael Pookb. 1985GBFootballer (born 1985)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.4K | #5,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 290 | #72,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 272 | #71,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,296 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #6,913 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Pook mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE pūca 'elf, sprite, goblin'; first attested William Puch 1166 P (Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Pook?
- A machine transcription gives /pʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pook have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 728 people named Pook in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pook.
- How common is the name Pook?
- In the United States, the national register counted 272 people named Pook in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pookThe 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, “Pook”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.