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    The surname Fenwick

    An English place surname, carried by 4,597 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F520

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fenwick is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling-place”), equivalent to fen + -wick.

    Fenwick is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,597 people named Fenwick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,162 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,482.

    #7,254
    rank among US surnames
    4,597
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #6,904)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,246Beltz4,60367,075
    #7,247Theodore4,60167,104
    #7,253Belden4,60067,119
    #7,254Fenwick4,59767,162
    #7,255Nightingale4,59667,177
    #7,257Lohman4,59267,236

    Who is named Fenwick

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    74% of people named Fenwick identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Fenwicks

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Irene Fenwick
      American actress (1887-1936)
    • Benedict Joseph Fenwick
      American Catholic bishop, 1782–1846
    • Millicent Fenwick
      American politician (1910-1992)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fenwick

    Fenwick has the Soundex code F520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F520.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fenwick come from?
    From Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling-place”), equivalent to fen + -wick.
    How common is the surname Fenwick?
    4,597 people in the United States had the surname Fenwick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,162 Americans. It ranked 7,254th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fenwick?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Fenwick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Fenwick?
    Irene Fenwick, American actress (1887-1936), followed by Benedict Joseph Fenwick.
    Where is the surname Fenwick most common?
    Wikidata records people named Fenwick in the United States.
    What type of surname is Fenwick?
    Fenwick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Fenwick getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,482 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,597 in 2010, up 2.6%.