Pike

The surname is of multiple origins, including Middle English pike.

Pike

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
   3. An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
   4. A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
   5. An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
   7. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.

• Pike County
• Pikes Peak

Pike (plural Pikes)

1. (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

• kepi, kipe

From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Old Dutch *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk. Already in Dutch the word was influenced by French pic (“tip”). Another influence is German Picke (“pick, pickaxe”), from picken. The precise relation between all of these words is uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːkə/

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Pike f (genitive Pike, plural Piken)

1. (weaponry) pike
2. (especially soccer) the tip of the foot or shoe

   Synonyms: Picke, Spitze

• von der Pike auf (“from scratch”)

• Pike on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Pike”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “piek”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
• “Pike” in Duden online