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    The surname Siek

    A German surname, carried by 519 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

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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). Siek is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a Polish surname, from a derivative of siekać (“to chop up, hack”). * As a North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sīk (“swampy valley”), from Old Saxon *sīk, from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”).

    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 519 people named Siek in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 505.

    #41,886
    rank among US surnames
    519
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #40,761)

    Who is named Siek

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

    85% of people named Siek identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Siek

    Siek 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 Siek come from?
    * As a Polish surname, from a derivative of siekać (“to chop up, hack”). * As a North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sīk (“swampy valley”), from Old Saxon *sīk, from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”).
    How common is the surname Siek?
    519 people in the United States had the surname Siek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. It ranked 41,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Siek?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Siek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Siek getting more or less common?
    More common. 505 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 519 in 2010, up 2.8%.