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The surname Pyke

A surname, carried by 1,050 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P200

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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). Pyke is more common than 85.2% of them.

Origin

English and Irish surname, spelling variant of Pike.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,050 people named Pyke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 294,043 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,038.

#24,012
rank among US surnames
1,050
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+1.2%
change since 2000 (was #22,999)

Who is named Pyke

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

87% of people named Pyke identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 87%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pyke

Pyke has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

Questions

Where does the surname Pyke come from?
English and Irish surname, spelling variant of Pike.
How common is the surname Pyke?
1,050 people in the United States had the surname Pyke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 294,043 Americans. It ranked 24,012th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pyke?
In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Pyke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pyke getting more or less common?
More common. 1,038 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,050 in 2010, up 1.2%.