# Fiske (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/fiske/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,110 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,060 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 75,121 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.8% (3,921 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Fiske in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Fiske in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Fiske

- Billy Fiske, American bobsledder and pilot (1911-1940)
- John Fiske, American philosopher and historian (1842-1901)
- Willard Fiske, American librarian, book collector, and chess player (1831–1904)
- Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress, playwright, and editor (1865–1932)
- Susan T. Fiske, American psychologist
- John Fiske, American media scholar (1939–2021)
- Thomas Fiske, American mathematician (1865–1944)
- Helen Hunt Jackson, American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

## Similar surnames

Fisk, Foskey, Fish, Fike, Fick, Fox, Foss, Fuchs, Fusco, Fuqua, Fazio, Fogg.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.