Sick
See also: sick
English
editEtymology
edit- As a Dutch and German surname, shortened from names like Siegfried, Siegmund and similar. Compare Sieck, Zeek.
- As a Czech surname, Americanized from Šik; also Slovene, Carpathian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian Šic, converged from several origins such as síč (“sower”), the source of Schuetz, or Slavicized from Hungarian szűcs (“furrier”).
Compare Shick.
Proper noun
editSick (plural Sicks)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Sick is the 33530th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Sick is most common among White (95.0%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English terms derived from German
- English terms derived from Czech
- English terms derived from Slovene
- English terms derived from Carpathian Rusyn
- English terms derived from Serbo-Croatian
- English terms derived from Hungarian
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from German