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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Low German wicker ‘soothsayer’, ‘magician’.
  • German : from an Old High German personal name composed of the elements wīg ‘battle’, ‘war’ + heri ‘army’.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived or worked in an outlying settlement, from a derivative of Old English wīc (see Wick).

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