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    The surname Sick

    A German surname, carried by 680 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Sick: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sick #33,530, 680 people Sick: #33,530 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sick #33,530, 680 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sick is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a Dutch and German surname, shortened from names like Siegfried, Siegmund and similar. Compare Sieck, Zeek. * As a Czech surname, Americanized from Šik; also Slovene, Carpathian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian Šic, converged from several origins such as síč (“sower”), the source of Schuetz, or Slavicized from Hungarian szűcs (“furrier”). Compare Shick.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 680 people named Sick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. That is down 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 734.

    #33,530
    rank among US surnames
    680
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7.4%
    change since 2000 (was #30,120)

    Who is named Sick

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

    95% of people named Sick identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sick

    Sick has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sick come from?
    * As a Dutch and German surname, shortened from names like Siegfried, Siegmund and similar. Compare Sieck, Zeek. * As a Czech surname, Americanized from Šik; also Slovene, Carpathian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian Šic, converged from several origins such as síč (“sower”), the source of Schuetz, or…
    How common is the surname Sick?
    680 people in the United States had the surname Sick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 454,038 Americans. It ranked 33,530th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sick?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sick getting more or less common?
    Less common. 734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 680 in 2010, down 7.4%.