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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a chest maker, from an agent derivative of Old English hwicce ‘chest’.
  • English : from an agent derivative of Middle English wiche ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’ (Old English wīc), hence an occupational name for a dairy farmer or a habitational name for someone who lived at a place called Wich or Wick.
  • English : topographic name Middle English wyche ‘wych-elm’ + hey ‘enclosure’.

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