Last Name FISKE

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Meaning	Nickname: The fish. Possibly from Icelandic 'fiskr.'

Origin	English, Danish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Irish

Rank	7,826 (2000 US census)	8,835 (1990 US census)

Count	3,921 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.23%, or 3734 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.77%, or 30 total occurrences, as black,
0.79%, or 31 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.28%, or 11 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.53%, or 60 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.4%, or 55 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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