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    The surname Wyke

    An English place surname, carried by 569 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W200

    Wyke: #38,801 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wyke #38,801, 569 people Wyke: #38,801 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wyke #38,801, 569 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wyke is more common than 76.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English wīċ (“village”); compare Wick, which shares the same etymology.

    Wyke is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 569 people named Wyke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 551.

    #38,801
    rank among US surnames
    569
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #37,881)

    Who is named Wyke

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

    80% of people named Wyke identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Wyke

    Wyke has the Soundex code W200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W200.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wyke come from?
    From Old English wīċ (“village”); compare Wick, which shares the same etymology.
    How common is the surname Wyke?
    569 people in the United States had the surname Wyke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. It ranked 38,801st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wyke?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Wyke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Wyke?
    Wyke is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Wyke getting more or less common?
    More common. 551 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 569 in 2010, up 3.3%.