Lick
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lick is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a short form of a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself a short or pet form of a compound name formed with leud.
- USUnited States1 in 328K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 198K
- ARArgentina1 in 297K
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)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198K (inferred from the name graph)
1,014 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Líck in AT Austria.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a short form of a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself a short or pet form of a compound name formed with leud. Hut (see, for example, Leopold).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lick 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 | 1,014 | 1 in 328K | 1K | Lick | 200 |
| BR Brazil | 239 | 1 in 886K | 239 | — | 19 |
| AR Argentina | 153 | 1 in 297K | 153 | — | 22 |
| CA Canada | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Lick | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 970K | — | Lick | 18 |
| AT Austria | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Líck | 26 |
| CL Chile | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 702K | 1 | — | 10 |
1,014 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lick is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To stroke with the tongue.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, v., magomi
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In jam, to hit, stroke, or blow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-ecg, gap, lacuna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, like
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Lickb. 1796USAmerican businessman and piano builder (1796–1876)
- Dale Wesley Lickb. 1938USAmerican academic administrator
- Dennis Lickb. 1954USAmerican football player
- Ileana Daniela LickARArgentine chemist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,167 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 954 | #26,876 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 239 | #31,782 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 153 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lick come from?
- from a short form of a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself a short or pet form of a compound name formed with leud. Hut (see, for example, Leopold). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lick mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a short form of a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself a short or pet form of a compound name formed with leud.
- In which country does Lick have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Lick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lick.
- How common is the name Lick?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,014 people named Lick in 2010, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lickThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lick”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.