Sick

See also: sick

English

Etymology

• As a Dutch and German surname, shortened from names like Siegfried, Siegmund and similar. Compare Sieck, Zeek.
• As a Czech surname, Americanized from Šik; also Slovene, Carpathian Rusyn, and Serbo-Croatian Šic, converged from several origins such as síč (“sower”), the source of Schuetz, or Slavicized from Hungarian szűcs (“furrier”).

Compare Shick.

Proper noun

Sick (plural Sicks)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sick is the 33530^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 680 individuals. Sick is most common among White (95.0%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• CKIs