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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of ten or more farmsteads so named in eastern Norway, from the plural of vik ‘bay’, ‘inlet’ (see Vik).
  • Swedish : ornamental name from vik ‘bay’ + the suffix -er.

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