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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Wycliffe, a place in Durham, situated on a bend in the Tees, and probably named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ or wiht ‘bend’ + clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’.

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