Given name & surname
Wickham
“from the village paddocks”
Wickham is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the village paddocks.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the village paddocks.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Middle English Wicham, from Old English wīċ (“village”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wickham through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,129 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wickham’s family of names
Wickham has a related form in Wiccum. Wickham has a related form in Wichamm. Wickham has a related form in Wickam.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Wiggamvariant · English
- Wichammvariant
- Wiccumvariant
- Wykamvariant
- Wyckamvariant
- Wickamvariant
- Wykhamvariant
- Wikhamvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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