Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Low German wicker ‘soothsayer’, ‘magician’.
- German : from an Old High German personal name composed of the elements wīg ‘battle’, ‘war’ + heri ‘army’.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived or worked in an outlying settlement, from a derivative of Old English wīc (see Wick).