Spīķe
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Spīķe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English spike, spyke, spik , from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stic.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 113K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 547K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
608 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishspike(measured from records)
- Old Norsespík“spike“spike, sprig”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*spīkō“stick“stick, splinter, point”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*spey-“to be pointed; sharp point“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”(measured from records)
From Middle English spike, spyke, spik , from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Spīķe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 608 | 1 in 547K | 608 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Spīķe | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 211 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 69 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 42 | — | — |
608 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Spīķe mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English spike, spyke, spik , from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stic… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Spīķe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 608 people named Spīķe, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Spīķe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 608 people named Spīķe in 2010, about 1 in 547 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Spīķe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.