The surname Crick
A place surname, carried by 2,430 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex C620
Origin
The Northamptonshire place-name is from Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“heap, mound”) (itself from Proto-Celtic *krouk-; cf. Welsh crug).
Crick is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,430 people named Crick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,056 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,354.
Who is named Crick
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Crick identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Crick has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.
Questions
- Where does the surname Crick come from?
- The Northamptonshire place-name is from Proto-Brythonic *krʉg (“heap, mound”) (itself from Proto-Celtic *krouk-; cf. Welsh crug).
- How common is the surname Crick?
- 2,430 people in the United States had the surname Crick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,056 Americans. It ranked 12,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Crick?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Crick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Crick?
- Crick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Crick getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,354 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,430 in 2010, up 3.2%.