Dick Family History
Dick Name Meaning
Scottish and English: from a short form of Richard. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to northern Ireland.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German dic(ke) ‘thick’, ‘strong’, ‘stout’, or in the case of the Jewish name from modern German dick ‘fat’ or Yiddish dik.German: topographic name for someone who lived by a thicket or patch of thick undergrowth, from Middle High German dicke, a special use of dic(ke) ‘thick’.North German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name Theodicho, formed with theud ‘people’, ‘race’.
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Name Distribution of Dick Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dick families
 186 - 370  63 - 185 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dick families
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883 - 1,763 295 - 882 |
1 - 294 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dick Family Origin
Dick Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dick Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dick Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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