Find out how popular the last name Adamick is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Adamick.

Adamick, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Adamick surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Adamick in America

Adamick is the 65066th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Adamick surname appeared 305 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Adamick.

We can also compare 2010 data for Adamick to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Adamick

The surname Adamick originated in Poland, where it first appeared in the late 17th century. It is a variation of the more common Polish surname Adamczyk, which is a patronymic derived from the given name Adam. The name Adam itself is of Hebrew origin, meaning "earth" or "man of the soil."

The earliest recorded mention of the Adamick surname can be found in church records from the village of Adamówka in the Silesian region of Poland, dating back to the late 1600s. At the time, the name was spelled "Adamiczek," which later evolved into the modern spelling of Adamick.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, many Poles bearing the Adamick surname immigrated to other parts of Europe, particularly Germany and France, as well as to the United States. One notable bearer of the name was Michał Adamick (1805-1879), a Polish-born artist who settled in Paris and gained recognition for his landscape paintings.

In the United States, the Adamick surname first appeared in census records in the late 19th century, with a concentration of families settling in the Midwestern states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. One of the earliest recorded bearers of the name in America was Jan Adamick (1820-1897), a Polish immigrant who settled in Chicago and worked as a carpenter.

Another notable Adamick was Józef Adamick (1862-1924), a Polish-American businessman and philanthropist who founded the Adamick Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which operated until the onset of Prohibition in the 1920s.

Over the centuries, the Adamick surname has also been associated with several places in Poland, including the village of Adamiczki in the Warmian-Masurian region, and the town of Adamówka in the Lublin Voivodeship.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Adamick

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Adamick.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Adamick was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Adamick has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Adamick was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

If you have a correction or suggestion to improve the history of Adamick, please contact us.

Reference this page

We spend a lot of resources downloading, cleaning, merging, and formatting the data that is shown on the site.

If you found the data or information on this page useful in your research, please use the tool below to properly cite or reference Name Census as the source. We appreciate your support!