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.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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