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Warwick


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Origin Of The Surname Warwick

Meaning Of The Surname Warwick

From the Town with the Weir and the Dairy Farm

Interesting Facts About Warwick

Warwick is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘wering’ combined with ‘wic’ meaning a dairy farm. Therefore places with this name would have been renowned for have both a weir and a dairy farm, or perhaps the two situated right next to each other.

Warwick Statistics

Warwick is the number 1155 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 9,062 share the surname Warwick in the UK.

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