habitational name from the county seat of
Warwickshire, or a regional name from the county itself. The city was
originally named as the ‘outlying settlement (Old English
wic) by the weir (a hypothetical Old English
wæring)’. Compare Warrington.
habitational name
from a much smaller place of the same name in Cumbria, named with Old
English waroð ‘bank’ + wic.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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