The hick Surname
hick Name Meaning and History
- English: from the medieval personal name Hicke, a pet form of Richard. The substitution of H- as the initial resulted from the inability of the English to cope with the velar Norman R-.
- Dutch: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, such as Icco or Hikke (a Frisian derivative of a compound name with the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’).
- East German: from a derivative of a Slavic pet form of Heinrich.
- South German: from Hiko, a pet form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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