Dick

Meaning

a traditional English pet form of Richard, from Germanic ric, power, and hard, brave, via the old rhyming-nickname pattern Rick to Dick

Short for Richard

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dick peaked in the 1930s.

Names that fit alongside Dick

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A personal letter, not a list: where Dick truly comes from, how it traveled, its century in real records, and, if you have grown a tree on nametree, exactly how it reads against your family and your last name. Add a note and it is not just quoted back at you: it changes the texture of the analysis, what the letter weighs, what it examines, what it argues with.

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