Pike

At the 2020 census, 25,377 Americans bore the surname Pike — 1,363rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,377
Rank: 1,363rd
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

The surname is of multiple origins, including Middle English pike.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Pike

Rosamund Pike (born 1979)English actress
Albert Pike (1809–1891)American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason
Rob Pike (born 1956)software engineer
Zebulon Pike (1779–1813)American military officer, explorer, and writer
Kenneth Lee Pike (1912–2000)American linguist
Christa Pike (born 1976)American murderer
Aprilynne Pike (born 1981)American writer

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

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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.