Entry № 8160 · English origin

Pike Pike — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PYK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Long fish / peak (Rosamund Pike; modern unisex)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "long fish / peak (rosamund pike; modern unisex)".

Pike is from the Old English pīc (point, peak) — also the predatory pike fish. Magnolia Pike — Stranger Things recurring character.

Long fish / peak.

The name in its native script.

Pike
Transliteration
Pike
Pronunciation
/ paɪk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pike stands.

Pike does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pikes before her.

Real people
Rosamund Pike
English Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1979
Zebulon Pike
American explorer (Pike's Peak).
1779 – 1813
In fiction
Captain Christopher Pike
Star Trek.
1965

Names connected to Pike.

The number behind Pike.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pike reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.