Wicke
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of wicked
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈvɪkə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Wicke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 101K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.5Kas Wick
- DEGermany≈1 in 16Kas Wick
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wicke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 380 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
8,333 named Wick, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Wick in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wicke is read
(measured from records)Wicke is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
Obsolete form of wicked.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German29%
vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Wicko; apokopierte Variante der Kurzform, wohl aus altsächs. willio ‚Wille‘ oder altsächs. widu ‚Wald, Holz‘, mit nd. k-Diminutivsuffix. 1889 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Kurzform zu Rufnamen auf Wig- (z. B. Wigand, Wigbert, Wighard, Wigold, Wigrich, Wigher, Wigger); 1.889 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wicke in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wicke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,333as Wick | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Wick | 380 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Wick | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Wick | 25 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Wick | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | #575 | 1,291as Wick | 1 in 6.5K | 1.3K | Wick | 51 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Wick | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 334as Wick | 1 in 16K | 334 | Wick | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Wick | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 116 | 1 in 101K | 116 | Wicke | 12 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #275 | — | — | — | Wick | 1 |
8,333 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Johann Anton Wilhelm Wickeb. 1828DEGerman chemist (1828-1871)
- Wilhelm Wickeb. 1837DEGerman engineer, publisher, bookseller, and photographer
- Fritz Wickeb. 1881DEDr. phil. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 1905
- Paul Wickeb. 1892DEGerman painter (1892-1948)
- Lieselotte Wickeb. 1914DEGerman politician (1914-1989)
- Ewald Wickeb. 1914DEGerman chemist (1914–2000)
- Helmut Wickeb. 1920DEGerman navy officer and WWII submarine commander
- Lutz Wickeb. 1943DEGerman professor
- Peter Wickeb. 1951DEGerman musicologist
- Anne Wickeb. 1951FRFrench translator 1951-2013)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 856 | #29,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 711 | #30,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 676 | #33,695 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 116 | #13,787 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Wicke come from?
- vetch (Vicia gen. et spp.) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wicke?
- In German /ˈvɪkə/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Wicke mean?
- In English, Obsolete form of wicked.
- In which country does Wicke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Wick, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wicke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wicke is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wicke?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 116 people named Wicke in 2008, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Wicke compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Wicke is the 275th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wickeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wicke” — the 275th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.