The Fike surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,374 people carried this name — #5,459 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 46,300 people counted. That is up 2% from 6,237 in 2000.

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In the first U.S. census, 1790

29 families named Fike, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 164 people lived in those households, 5.7 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 4 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Pennsylvania 15
New Hampshire 6
North Carolina 5
South Carolina 3

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 240 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Fike in American newspapers,
1892–1916.

Newspaper page from Canton Weekly Register carrying the name Fike
Canton Weekly Register 1892-11-10
Newspaper page from The Frontier carrying the name Fike
The Frontier 1916-04-20
Newspaper page from The Frontier carrying the name Fike
The Frontier 1916-04-27

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 66,951 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Fike in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1970s.

300 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Fike. The most, 46, date from the 1920s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Queensland, at 1.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 110
Queensland 70
Victoria 54
South Australia 34
Tasmania 15
Western Australia 15
ACT (Canberra) 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Fike.

Who carried it

People named Fike,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Edward Fike
    Edward Fike 1925–2018 · politician
  • M. Virginia Rosenbaum 1921–2005 · surveyor
  • Phillip Fike 1927–1997 · artist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Fike,
in the records of 4 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States378 records

378 records of the Fike name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 236
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 85
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 15
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 14
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 13
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Roger Wesley Fike

    Born 1951; from Cambridge, Illinois. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1970 in Quang Duc, South Vietnam. Buried at Rock Island National Cemetery, Illinois.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Merl K. Fike

    Born 1918 in Pennsylvania. Enlisted 1942 at Greensburg; salesperson from Fayette County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1996, buried at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, Maryland.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Henriette Fike

    Arrived at New York in 1852 aboard the Patria from Bremen, aged 36; farmer. From Dieren, Prussia, Germany; bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 378 records for Fike in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Netherlands9 records

9 records of the Fike name in the Netherlands Dutch church registers before 1811
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Cornelia Fike

    Married in 1735 in Breda.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Breda (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Cornelis Sijbregtse Fike

    Buried in 1768 in Waspik.

    Open Archives, Streekarchief Langstraat Heusden Altena (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Civil record Johannes Fike

    Baptised in 1705 in Heusden.

    Open Archives, Streekarchief Langstraat Heusden Altena (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 9 records for Fike in the Netherlands.

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Canada5 records

5 records of the Fike name in Canada
  • City of Calgary cemetery records 4
  • City of Winnipeg cemetery records 1
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Ethel May Fike

    Buried in 1971 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 87.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
  2. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Lorne Gilman Fike

    Died 1959; buried at Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg.
  3. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Myrtle Lamanda Fike

    Buried in 1999 at Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 73.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.

Showing 3 of 5 records for Fike in Canada.

Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).

Germany1 record

1 record of the Fike name in Germany Germany's First World War casualty lists, 1914–1919
  1. A page of the German First World War casualty lists, 18 April 1918
    Example: German casualty list, 1918
    Casualty list Richard Fike

    Listed as returned from captivity in the Saxon casualty list of 19 March 1915.

    Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0)

Counts: Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Deutsche Verlustlisten, Prussian list 1116, 18 April 1918 (scan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0).

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