Given name & surname
Fenwick
“from the village near the marsh”
Fenwick is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the village near the marsh.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the village near the marsh.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”), built from English fen + -wick.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fenwick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 56 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,630 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,630 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 108 as a first name in 2020; 4,470 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fenwick’s family of names
Fenwick has a related form in Fenwic. Fenwick has a related form in Fenwik. Fenwick has a related form in Fenwyc.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Fenwick
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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