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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Derbyshire and Hampshire, named from the Old English byname Wicga (meaning ‘beetle’, ‘insect’) or Old English wicga ‘beetle’, ‘insect’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘woodland clearing’.

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