Vick
Likely an English surname from the French place-name Vic/Vicq, ultimately meaning “the village.”
The #2,511 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 21,409 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The strongest historical explanation treats Vick as a name taken from Vic or Vicq, common French place-names. These place-names go back to Latin vicus, meaning “village” or “settlement.” In this view, the surname began as an identification for someone who came from such a place.
History
19th- and early-20th-century surname writers also connected Vick with the French name Leveque, with Vick and Veck seen as shortened English forms. The locational explanation, however, is the most explicit one in the sources here. The name is relatively uncommon in the United States today, but it fits well within the broader English pattern of surnames derived from continental place-names and French immigrant forms.
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Fun fact
A 1914 surname study explicitly grouped Vick with Veck as reduced forms of Leveque.
From the historical record
“Skelton, Colyn Cloute, S7^-3- VICK (A.-Fr.-Lat.) Bel. to Vic or Vicq (a com- mon French place-name) = the Village [Lat. vic-us^ VICKER = Vicar, q.v. Vickerage 253”
— Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (2 vols in 1)