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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Manly

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English chike ‘young fowl’ (a shortened form of chiken), applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who bred poultry for the table, or as a nickname from the same word used as a term of endearment.
  • English : variant of Cheek.

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