The warwick Surname
warwick Name Meaning and History
- 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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