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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of English Hickock, from a pet form of Hick or a pet form of Hay 3.
  • The family name made famous by the frontier marshal James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok (1837–76) was introduced to North America by his grandfather Otis Hickok, an emigrant from Ireland who fought at Plattsburgh, NY, in the War of 1812 and started a family in Grand Isle Co., VT.

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