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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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