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nick Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a pet form of Nicholas.
  2. South German and Dutch: from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas).
  3. Jewish (American): Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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nick Family Facts

Distribution of nick Families in the US in 1920
Number of nick families
 63-124
 22-62		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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