Cook vs Gross

Cook

name
  • A village in Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook. 

  • An unincorporated community in Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook. 

  • A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia. 

  • A city in Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook. 

  • An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named. 

  • A river in New Zealand. 

  • A suburb of Canberra, Australia; named for James Cook. 

Gross

name
  • A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010. 

  • A surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”). 

How often have the words Cook and Gross occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )