Sic

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Sic is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 5 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish36%

  sic (thus; as written)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English28%

  Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Serbo-Croatian16%

  seat (of a vehicle)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Polish8.8%

  sic; used to express surprise at some fact or highlight an error in the quoted text

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French8.4%

  sic (thus)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German6.3%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Sic in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Sic is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Sič, Sić, Šić, Síč, Sïc

• Croatian surname43 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

  Also written Sić, Sič, Šic, Šik, Шик

• Polish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland

  Also written Sič, Šić

• Korean surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Korea, United States

  Also written Sheek, 시크

• a separate name7 spellings in the group

  Also written Sič, Šić, Sić, Síč, Síc

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Sic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, sic (used to indicate that a quoted word has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Sic come from?

sic; used to express surprise at some fact or highlight an error in the quoted text Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Sic?

In Spanish /sik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Sic mean?

In Spanish, sic (thus; as written)

In which country does Sic have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Sic in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sic.

How common is the name Sic?

In the United States, the national register counted 336 people named Sic in 2010, about 1 in 990 thousand residents.

How common is Sic compared with other names?

In Guatemala, Sic is the 726th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.