Snook
Usually a name for someone thought to be long-nosed or projecting, though some sources also connect it with a place-name like Sevenoaks.
The #4,926 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 43,236 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname Snook is usually explained as coming from an old nickname or topographic word for something that sticks out or projects. That may have been applied to a person with a prominent nose, or to someone living by a pointed feature of the landscape such as a headland or small promontory. Some older writers also linked the name with related Dutch and Scots forms meaning a pike or a projecting point, but the main idea is the same: something sharp or jutting.
History
The name is recorded in England in several spellings, including Snook, Snooke, and Snooks. Nineteenth-century surname writers also suggested a local origin from Sevenoaks in Kent, but that explanation is less certain than the nickname/topographic one. The surname is still found in Britain and was carried to North America, as shown by modern U.S. census counts.
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Fun fact
One older explanation ties the name to a word related to a pike or pointed object, which is why the surname has been compared with names for projecting landforms.
From the historical record
“SNODIN, V. Snowden. SNOOK "l(Eng.)i the A.-Sax. pers. (nick-) SNOOKE j name Snoc [conn, with Dut. snoek, a pike ; the root-idea being 'something markedly projecting'; hence the word was prob, applied to a long-nosed individual] 2 Dweller at a Point, Small Headland, or Pointed Rock [Dial. E. snook = Scot.”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)