Norwegian and Swedish: habitational name from any of numerous
farmsteads all over Norway and Sweden, so named with Old Norse
vík ‘small bay’, ‘inlet’. OV In Swedish it may also be a
topographic or ornamental name.Czech: from a short form
of the personal name Viktor (see Victor).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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