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The chico Surname

chico Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish and Portuguese: from chico ‘small’, ‘young’ (of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin ciccum ‘trifle’), applied as a nickname for a small man, or for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name.
  2. Portuguese: from a pet form of the personal name Francisco, a vernacular form of Franciscus (see Francis).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chico Families in the US in 1920
Number of chico families
 11-20
 4-10
 1-3
 0
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