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Pike

in Kentucky

There are 952 people with the last name "Pike" in Kentucky.

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Pike 560
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  1. is 556th most common Coomer
  2. is 557th most common Lynn
  3. is 558th most common Salyers
  4. is 559th most common Madden
  5. is 560th most common Pike
  6. is 561st most common Key
  7. is 562nd most common Abner
  8. is 563rd most common Beard
  9. is 564th most common Lopez

Similar Names and Nicknames

Pace, Pyke, Piker, Pokey, Pikes, Pacey, Poke, Pikey, Pake, Pece

Most Common First Names for Pike

John, David, James, Patricia, Robert, Thomas, Mary, William, Angela, Joseph

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pīc ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.

English: metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.

English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike. Compare Pick.

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).

English: nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.

English: from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.

English: nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.

Irish: in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).

Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pēk ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’. Compare 4 above or from a Germanic personal name (see 6 above).

FOREBEARS John Pike brought his family to Boston from England in 1635 and settled in Newbury, MA. His son Robert was a leading citizen and a vigorous defender of civil and religious liberty in colonial MA.

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