English: generally from a pet form of the personal name
Dick, but sometimes, according to both Reaney and Dauzat, a
nickname for a chorister, from Latin dixi ‘I have spoken’, the
first word of the 39th Psalm.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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