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pike Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pic ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike. Compare Pick.
  4. English: metonymic occupational name for a medieval foot soldier who used a pike, a weapon consisting of a sharp pointed metal end on a long pole, Middle English pic (Old French pique, of Germanic origin).
  5. English: nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.
  6. English: from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.
  7. English: nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.
  8. Irish: in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).
  9. Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pek ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’. Compare 4 above or from a Germanic personal name (see 6 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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pike Family Facts

Distribution of pike Families in the US in 1920
Number of pike families
 230-457
 77-229		 1-76
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