What is the nationality/orgin of the last name - weeks?

Question

been told it is a scandanavian name. not so sure

Answer 1

Weeks Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Wikke (see Wick 2).

English: variant of Wick 1.

It may also be an Americanization of Scandinavian Vik.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have ancestors named Weeks in my family tree.  They came from England (where their name was Wickes) to Albany, NY in the 1700's.  Ancestry.com states that the name may also come from the Scandanavian name Vik.

Surname Meanings and History  (from ancestry.com)

WEEKS - English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Wikke (see Wick 2).

English: variant of Wick 1.

It may also be an Americanization of Scandinavian Vik.

WICK 1 -  English: topographic name for someone who lived in an outlying settlement dependent on a larger village, Old English wic (Latin vicus), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. The term seems to have been used, in particular, to denote an outlying dairy farm or a salt works.

WICK 2 - English and German: from a medieval personal name, Middle English Wikke, German Wicko, a short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element wig ‘battle’, ‘war’.

VIK - Norwegian and Swedish: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway and Sweden, so named with Old Norse vík ‘small bay’, ‘inlet’. In Swedish it may also be a topographic or ornamental name

WICKES - English: patronymic from Wick 2, or variant of the habitational name Wick, with genitive or plural -s. There has been much confusion between this name and Weeks.

Answer 3

It sounds British.