Family name origins & meanings
- English : patronymic from Wick 2, or variant of the habitational name Wick, with genitive or plural -s. There has been much confusion between this name and Weeks.
- In 1638 Richard Wickes (also known as Richard Atwick), of Staines, Middlesex, England, died, leaving a bequest to “my son John Wickes now living in New England.” This John Wickes came from London, England, to Plymouth, MA, in 1635, and subsequently settled at Portsmouth, RI.