Fisk

At the 2020 census, 9,344 Americans bore the surname Fisk — 3,694th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,344
Rank: 3,694th
How common: 1 in 32,000
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name, a nickname, from Old Norse

English occupational surname for a fisherman or fish seller, or a cognominal surname for someone thought to resemble a fish, from Old Norse fiskr (cognate with Old English fisc), from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Fisk

Robert Fisk (1946–2020)English writer and journalist
Jack Fisk (born 1945)American production designer and director
Schuyler Fisk (born 1982)American actress, singer and songwriter
Carlton Fisk (born 1947)American baseball player

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

Surnames like Fisk

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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.