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wick Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived in an outlying settlement dependent on a larger village, Old English wic (Latin vicus), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. The term seems to have been used, in particular, to denote an outlying dairy farm or a salt works.
  2. English and German: from a medieval personal name, Middle English Wikke, German Wicko, a short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element wig ‘battle’, ‘war’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wick Families in the US in 1920
Number of wick families
 85-168
 29-84		 1-28
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Wick in Victoria, Australia gemma_robertson 0
Lucille (Nolte) Wick, 83, daughter of , Henry W. and Rose (Miller) Nolte. KENNELLYMARKA 0
Wick of Morristown, NJ DorothyCookBurt 9
my uncle Clarence Wick barbarasweenwt6 0
Stod S. Wick LarryShoop 2
1930 census & obit fyi - Melvin Leroy WICK , 1921 OH. - 2008 CA. LorraineGilmer02 0
Temperence Wick Amy 7
Wick DNA Project lrayvick 1
alaska from norway surfbob1 0
Martin Wick E_Brickman 3
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