Karasik

Karasik, Karasick or Karassik is a Slavic-language surname literally meaning "little karas", i.e., "little crucian carp".

It can be a metonymic occupational surname for a fisher, or a nickname for a person with face resembling carp. It can also be a Jewish artificial surname.https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=karasik

Notable people with the surname include:

• Adeena Karasick, (born 1965), Canadian poet, performance artist, and essayist
• Al Karasick, wrestling promoter
• Elissa Karasik, American screenwriter
• Igor Karassik, Russian-American engineer
• Paul Karasik, American cartoonist
• Regina Karasick, birth name of Peggy Dennis (1909–1993), American–Russian journalist, author, and Communist activist
• Yuli Karasik, Soviet film director