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Type Surname (from location)
name for someone living at the main farm in a district, from Dutch wijk ‘district’ + hof ‘farmstead’, ‘manor farm’.
Type Surname (from location)
Pronounced Pron. WYK-hoff(English) VIC-hoff(Frisian) [key]
Other Forms FormsWykhof
Edited 9/21/2018 by Sofia
The North Germanic meaning is "settlement on a bay," as in the cognate Viking (Viking is derived from Old Norse vík "bay").