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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a restless person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German vicken ‘to rub or fidget’.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with Old High German fridu ‘peace’ or frik ‘battle happy’.

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