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’.