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Dickson Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: patronymic from the personal name Dick.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of Dickson Families in the US in 1840
Number of Dickson families
 68-134
 23-67
 1-22
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