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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a dike, typically for someone whose job was to control pumps and water levels, a variant of Dieck, with the addition of man ‘man’.
  • North German : from the personal name Dieck, a reduced form of the old personal name Theodicho (see Dick).

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