Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle English frik(i)en ‘to move briskly or nimbly’ (from Old English frician ‘to dance’).
  • Swiss and German : variant of Frick 2.
  • German and Swiss German : habitational name for someone from the Frick valley in Baden.

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