Fenwick

At the 2020 census, 4,470 Americans bore the surname Fenwick — 7,205th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 66,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,470
Rank: 7,205th
How common: 1 in 66,900
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling-place”), equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fenwick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.3%
Black, not Hispanic 18.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fenwick

Terry Fenwick (born 1959)English footballer and manager
Irene Fenwick (1887–1936)American actress
Benedict Joseph Fenwick (1782–1846)American Catholic bishop

People named Fenwick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fenwick

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.