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Krook
Frequency: (159)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)

1. Dutch: nickname for someone with long curly hair, from Middle Dutch crook ‘curly’.

2. Swedish (also found in Finland): variant of Krok.

3. Respelling of Polish and Ashkenazic Jewish Kruk.

GIVEN NAMES: Scandinavian 8%; Finnish 6%; German 5%. Evald, Lennart, Oluf; Eero, Jorma, Orvo, Saara; Kurt (2).

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