Last Name WICKES

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Meaning Local: At the wyke or the son of William.
Local: At the wyke, i.e. the home, the dwelling. The suffix 's' is common to all local surnames of one syllable. 'Wick,' Anglo-Saxon 'wic,' an adobe, related to the Latin 'vicus.'
Origin English, Polish, Irish

Rank 29,325 (2000 US census) 30,896 (1990 US census)
Count 760 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.37%, or 664 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 8.29%, or 63 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.58%, or 12 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.45%, or 11 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Russian middle names

 As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

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