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Fenwick

in the US

There are 3,817 people with the last name "Fenwick" in the United States.

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Fenwick 6,924
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  1. is 6,920th most common Crim
  2. is 6,921st most common Gladney
  3. is 6,922nd most common Krieg
  4. is 6,923rd most common Englert
  5. is 6,924th most common Fenwick
  6. is 6,925th most common Gillman
  7. is 6,926th most common Judson
  8. is 6,927th most common Adelman
  9. is 6,928th most common Maple

Similar Names and Nicknames

Finwick, Fanwick, Fenwich, Fenwood, Finwood, Fenwrick, Femwick, Fenwic, Fenwicke, Fenwidk

Most Common First Names for Fenwick

James, John, William, Robert, David, Michael, Charles, Mary, Richard, Joseph

Meaning & History

Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from either of two places in Northumberland or from one in West Yorkshire, all of which are so named from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + wīc ‘outlying dairy farm’. There is also a place in Ayrshire, Scotland, which has the same name and origin. This last is the source of at least some early examples of the surname: Nicholaus Fynwyk was provost of Ayr in 1313, and Reginald de Fynwyk or Fynvyk appears as bailie and alderman of the same burgh in 1387 and 1401. The name is usually pronounced ‘Fennick’.

FOREBEARS The name was brought over from England by several forebears, including George Fenwick (1603–56/7), a colonist from Brinkburn, Northumberland. He was one of the group of lords and gentlemen to whom the earl of Warwick, president of the Council for New England, granted forty leagues of territory west of the Narragansett River. George took up residence with his family at Saybrook, CT, in 1639.John Fenwick of Bynfield, Berkshire, England, established himself at Salem, NJ, in June 1675, the first Quaker settlement on the Delaware.

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