Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish and northern Irish : habitational name from Rerrick or Rerwick in Kirkcudbrightshire, named with an unknown first element + wīc ‘outlying settlement’. It is also possible that the first element was originally Old Norse rauðr ‘red’.
- English : habitational name from Redwick in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with hrēod ‘reeds’ + wīc ‘outlying settlement’.