Dick

in South Carolina

There are 125 people with the last name "Dick" in South Carolina.

Ranking in South Carolina

Name	Rank
Dick	3,526

is 3,522nd most common Spaulding
is 3,523rd most common Thornhill
is 3,524th most common Beall
is 3,525th most common Cleckley
is 3,526th most common Dick
is 3,527th most common Heffner
is 3,528th most common Lemmons
is 3,529th most common Moyd
is 3,530th most common Oswalt

Meaning & History

Dick

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’.