The wilk Surname
wilk Name Meaning and History
- Polish: from Polish wilk ‘wolf’, probably from an Old Slavic personal name containing this element, but perhaps also applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a wolf or connected with wolves.
- Scottish and English: from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Wilkin, as if that contained the Anglo-Norman French diminutive suffix -in.
- North German: variant of Wilke.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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