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Pike

in New Jersey

There are 288 people with the last name "Pike" in New Jersey.

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Pike 2,714
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  1. is 2,710th most common Baratta
  2. is 2,711th most common Bolden
  3. is 2,712th most common England
  4. is 2,713th most common Pawlowski
  5. is 2,714th most common Pike
  6. is 2,715th most common Prado
  7. is 2,716th most common Saleh
  8. is 2,717th most common Talbot
  9. is 2,718th most common Cantor

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Pike

Robert, William, John, Christopher, David, Janet, Nancy, Patricia, Richard, Thomas

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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