Wycliffe

English

Etymology

From Old English wiht (“bend”) + clif (“escarpment, hill-slope; riverbank”).[1]

Proper noun

Wycliffe (countable and uncountable, plural Wycliffes)

(uncountable) A placename:
1. A village in Wycliffe with Thorpe parish, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1114).
2. 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 200455^th 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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