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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : patronymic from Heike (see Heick).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Khayke, a pet form of Khaye, ‘life’, with the addition of the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

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