Tick
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. DIET (Kf. Theo- dicho) Tid(d)-: s
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tick is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 270K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
290 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)s. DIET (Kf. Theo- dicho) Tid(d)-: s. DIET
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tick counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 290 | 1 in 19K | 290 | Tick | 2 |
| US United States | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 199 | Tick | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 64 | 1 in 270K | 64 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | Tick | 22 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
290 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tick is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from the Germanic stem *theud- 'people'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, nyala
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In German, singular imperative of ticken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, tick (quiet but sharp sound)
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Judith Tickb. 1943American musicologist (born 1943)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 290 | #5,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 199 | #86,992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 198 | #92,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 188 | #102,164 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 126 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 64 | #26,275 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,078 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tick come from?
- s. DIET (Kf. Theo- dicho) Tid(d)-: s. DIET Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Tick?
- In the etymology graph, Zecca is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tick?
- A machine transcription gives /tɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tick mean?
- Recorded meaning: s. DIET (Kf. Theo- dicho) Tid(d)-: s.
- In which country does Tick have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 290 people named Tick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tick.
- Where is Tick most common?
- Tick is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tick?
- In Finland, the national register counted 290 people named Tick, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tick?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tickThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tick”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.