Respelling of a Scandinavian and North German patronymic derived
from the Old Norse personal name Eiríkr, which is composed
of ei ‘ever’, ‘always’ (or a reduced form of ein ‘one’,
‘only’) + rík ‘power’. The main forms are Erichsen,
Eriksen, Ericsson, and Eriksson.
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