Last Name WYKES

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Meaning 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, Belgian, Angolan

Rank 42,912 (2000 US census) 75,973 (1990 US census)
Count 475 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.79%, or 455 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.47%, or 7 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.89%, or 9 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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