Mick
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Frequency: (1912)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch micke ‘(wheat or rye) bread’.
2. German (Saxon): from a short form of the Slavic personal name Mikolaj, a form of Nicholas.
3. German (northern and central): from a byname related to Middle Low German micke ‘forked stick’.
4. Irish: reputedly a surname taken to County Limerick from the Rhine Palatinate in the 18th century.
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