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Current distribution of Wykeses tends to be concentrated in the UK and the
former British Colonies as would be expected of a name originating in England.
Wykes is the 75,973rd most popular last name (surname) in the United
States; frequency is less than 0.000%; percentile is 89.260 [SourceCBN]
A cursory examination of the UK distribution of Wykes shows that a
large majority are located in the East Midlands, in and adjacent to the
counties of Northampton and Leicester, not too far from the Danelaw
area of Viking settlement on the east coast. The present distribution
is consistent with an inland migration over time from the east coast of England,
where most of the successive waves of invasion and occupation took place.
An analysis of the 1881 UK Census data for all
the variant names indicates different centres of concentration for some of the
variants.
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