The surname Orrick
An English surname, carried by 1,353 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O620
Origin
English origin
From the Old English personal name Ordric, composed of ord (“point of a sword or spear”) + rīc (“power”).
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 1,353 people named Orrick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. That is up 7.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,263.
Who is named Orrick
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Orrick identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Orick
Surnames that sound like Orrick
Orrick has the Soundex code O620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O620.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Orrick come from?
- From the Old English personal name Ordric, composed of ord (“point of a sword or spear”) + rīc (“power”).
- How common is the surname Orrick?
- 1,353 people in the United States had the surname Orrick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. It ranked 19,865th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Orrick?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Orrick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Orrick getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,263 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,353 in 2010, up 7.1%.
- What are other spellings of Orrick?
- Orick.