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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Tickhill in South Yorkshire, so named from the Old English personal name or byname Tica (of uncertain origin) or ticce(n) ‘kid’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • Probably an altered spelling of German Tickel, from a pet form of Dick, from a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German diot ‘people’ (see for example Dietrich).

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