North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name from Middle
Low German and Middle Dutch micke ‘(wheat or rye) bread’.German (Saxon): from a short form of the Slavic personal
name Mikolaj, a form of Nicholas.German (northern
and central): from a byname related to Middle Low German micke
‘forked stick’.Irish: reputedly a surname taken to County
Limerick from the Rhine Palatinate in the 18th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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