Wyckoff

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Submitted Name (1)

Type Surname (from location)
Usage Dutch
Pronounced Pron. WIEK-off
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Meaning & History

name for someone living at the main farm in a district, from Dutch wijk ‘district’ + hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’.

Submitted Name (2)

Type Surname (from location)
Usage East Frisian (Rare)
Pronounced Pron. WYK-hoff(English)
 VIC-hoff(Frisian)
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Other Forms FormsWykhof
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Meaning & History

The North Germanic meaning is "settlement on a bay," as in the cognate Viking (Viking is derived from Old Norse vík "bay").