Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch (also Van Wyck) and Jewish (from the Netherlands) : habitational name for someone from any of the many places in the Netherlands named Wijk, from the Dutch word wijk ‘district’, ‘settlement’.
- Cornelius Barendtsen van Wyck came from the Netherlands to Long Island in 1660. His descendant Charles Henry van Wyck (1824–95) was a prominent New York politician.