Last Name DICK

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Meaning	The son of Richard, from the nickname Dick, which ran a severe race for popularity with Hick, and finally monopolized the public favor. An abbreviation of Richard. The family are supposed to be of Danish origin, and to be the same as Van Dyke. William de Dyck, Alderman of Edinburgh, 1296, was the ancestor of some of the Scottish families of Dick. The familiar abbreviation of Richard. It may come from the Dutch 'Dyck,' a bank or dike, a bulwark thrown up in the Low Countries against the sea or rivers to prevent inundation. Name DICK is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origin 'ДИК'. Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic version of this name. 'DIK' 'DIC' 'DICK' .

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Native American, Chilean, Irish, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian, Belarusian

Rank	1,492 (2000 US census)	1,388 (1990 US census)

Count	21,933 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

89.94%, or 19727 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.96%, or 649 total occurrences, as black,
0.57%, or 125 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
3.83%, or 840 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.4%, or 307 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.3%, or 285 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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