Spike

• Rhymes: -aɪk

From spike, variously from having spiky hair, being thin (like a railroad spike), etc.

Spike

1. A male nickname.
   • 1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature, page 418:

     This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.

   • 2013, Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 238:

     He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.

From spike, perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.

Spike (plural Spikes)

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Spike is the 36736^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 608 individuals. Spike is most common among White (81.74%) and Black/African American (12.99%) individuals.

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

• Pikes, Sipek, kepis, kipes, pikes

Spike m (strong, genitive Spikes, plural Spikes)

1. spike (nail or something similar to it)

• “Spike” in Duden online