Weeks (surname)
The name Weeks is a non common English surname, usually either a patronymic of the Middle English "Wikke" ("battle, war") or a topographic or occupational name deriving from "Wick" ("small, outlying village"). It may also be an Anglification of the Scandinavian habitational name "Vik" ("small bay, inlet"). Derivation. "Weeks" is an English surname of Germanic origin with several known derivations: Early instances. Early bearers of the surname include: Later recordings include: Cognates and variations. Names etymologically related to "Weeks" include but may not be limited to: "Weekes", "Wicks", "Weech", "Week", "Weeke", "Wich", "Wych", "Weetch", "Wick", "Wickes", "Wix", "Wike , Witch", "Wykes", "Whick", and "Vik". Frequency and distribution. In the UK, at the time of the 1881 Census, the relative frequency of "Weeks" was highest in Devon (7.3 times the British average), followed by Wiltshire, Somerset, Hampshire, Brecknockshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Kent and Dorset. Today the name is most common (indicated in frequency per million) in Australia (188), the United States (181), the United Kingdom (156), Canada (143), and New Zealand (71). Globally, the city with the largest numbers of people named "Weeks" is Bristol, United Kingdom, located in the south western county of Somerset. In the US, there were 51,976  people in 1990 with the last name "Weeks", making it the 675th most common last name. The table below compares this with the corresponding enumerations of related names at that time in the US.