Wycliffe
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English
Etymology
From Old English wiht (“bend”) + clif (“escarpment, hill-slope; riverbank”).[1]
Proper noun
Wycliffe (countable and uncountable, plural Wycliffes)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village in Wycliffe with Thorpe parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1114).
- A neighbourhood of Modesto, California, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wycliffe is the 200455th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 101 individuals.
References
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wycliffe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.