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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname meaning ‘fat man’, a noun formation from Dick 2.
  • German : topographic name meaning either ‘dweller by the thicket’ (Middle High German dicke ‘thicket’) or ‘dweller by the dike’ (Middle Low German dīk ‘dike’). Compare Dieckman.

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