Boy name origins & meanings
- English : To guard, watchman
- English : Settlement near the weir
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from the county seat of Warwickshire, or a regional name from the county itself. The city was originally named as the ‘outlying settlement (Old Englishwīc) by the weir (a hypothetical Old Englishwæring)’. Compare Warrington.
- English : habitational name from a much smaller place of the same name in Cumbria, named with Old English waroð ‘bank’ + wīc.
