Sick
See also: sick
English
Etymology
- 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.
Statistics
- 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
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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