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Updated March 27, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian and Swedish : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway and Sweden, so named with Old Norse vík ‘small bay’, ‘inlet’.
  • Czech : from a short form of the personal name Viktor (see Victor).

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