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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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