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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Munster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÍceadh ‘descendant of Ícidhe’, a byname meaning ‘doctor’, ‘healer’.
  • English : from a pet form of Hick.

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