Frequency: (306)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: from Anglo-Norman French chouque ‘tree stump’, possibly applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near a tree stump, or alternatively as a nickname for a person of stumpy build. Compare Such.
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