The surname Fick
A French nickname surname, carried by 5,311 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex F200
Origin
French origin
* As a North/Low German surname, from a pet form of the name Friedrich. * As an English surname, perhaps from an adjective meaning "to move quickly," see the verbs fidge, fig. Compare Figg. * Alternatively as an English surname, from a nickname derived from Old English gefic (“deceitful”), compare the adjective fickle. See Ficker. * As an English surname of Norman origin, from Old French fike, a northern variant of fiche (“pointed implement”), presumably related to the verb ficher (“to drive in”). See Fitch.
Fick is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,311 people named Fick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,133 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,298.
Who is named Fick
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Fick identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Fick has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Fick come from?
- * As a North/Low German surname, from a pet form of the name Friedrich. * As an English surname, perhaps from an adjective meaning "to move quickly," see the verbs fidge, fig. Compare Figg. * Alternatively as an English surname, from a nickname derived from Old English gefic (“deceitful”), compare…
- How common is the surname Fick?
- 5,311 people in the United States had the surname Fick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,133 Americans. It ranked 6,405th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fick?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Fick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Fick?
- Fick is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Fick getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,298 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,311 in 2010, up 0.2%.