North German: topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree
or in an oak wood, from Middle Low German eke ‘oak’. The South
German cognate Eich is sometimes Americanized as
Eick.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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