Pike Family History

English: nickname perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger. English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool perhaps a laborer or military pikeman from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick.

English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík) of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above. English: nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Speake and Speight.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point (Old English pīc, Old Norse pík). Irish: in the south, of English origin (see above); in Ulster a variant Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).

Americanized form of North German Peik. Americanized form of Slovenian Pajek or Pajk: nickname from (an archaic spelling of) pajek ‘spider’. Compare Paik.