Wicken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Wicken (Cambridgeshire or Northamptonshire), Wicken Bonhunt (Essex), or from ME atte wiken 'dweller or worker at the dairy-farms'; first attested Thomas de le Wikin 1275 RH (Nf)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʋɪkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wicken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
194 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wickén in SE Sweden.
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)from Wicken (Cambridgeshire or Northamptonshire), Wicken Bonhunt (Essex), or from ME atte wiken 'dweller or worker at the dairy-farms'; first attested Thomas de le Wikin 1275 RH (Nf)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wicken 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 | 194 | 1 in 1.7M | 246 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 3 | Wickén | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | — | — | Wicken | 1 |
194 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Wicken is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The European rowan tree.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Natalie Wickenb. 1930NZNew Zealand netball player
- William Craig Wickenb. 1955CACanadian history professor
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 246 | #82,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 219 | #80,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 194 | #94,311 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,117 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #113,577 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Wicken mean, and where does it come from?
- from Wicken (Cambridgeshire or Northamptonshire), Wicken Bonhunt (Essex), or from ME atte wiken 'dweller or worker at the dairy-farms'; first attested Thomas de le Wikin 1275 RH (Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Wicken?
- In the etymology graph, Wick is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wicken?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋɪkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wicken have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 194 people named Wicken, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wicken most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wicken is densest in Norway — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wicken?
- In the United States, the national register counted 194 people named Wicken in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wicken?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wickenThe 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, “Wicken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.