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dickman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English diche, dike ‘dike’, ‘earthwork’ + man ‘man’, hence an occupational name for a ditch digger or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike. See also Dyke.
  2. English: occupational name meaning ‘servant (Middle English man) of Dick’.
  3. Dutch: elaborated form of Dyck.
  4. Americanized spelling of German Dickmann.
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname meaning ‘fat man’, a noun formation from Dick 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dickman Families in the US in 1920
Number of dickman families
 82-161
 28-81		 1-27
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