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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname for a weak or malleable person, from Middle Dutch swike, swick ‘one who yields’, from swiken ‘to yield or give way’.
  • Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Swidger (see Schweickert).
  • Altered spelling of German Zwick.

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