Last name: RICKMAN

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RICKMAN : This last name is indexed 17,398 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RICKMAN : 1: English: from the Middle English personal name Rikeman either from an unrecorded Old English personal name Rīcmann or from a pet form of Middle English Ricard (see Richard) + the hypocoristic suffix -man. The name was sometimes interchangeable with Richman.2: English: from the Middle English personal name Rikemund (Old English Rīcmund from rīc ‘power(ful)’ + mund ‘protection’). It was probably easily confused with the personal name in 1 above.3: Americanized form of German Rickmann: from the Low German personal name from rīc ‘power(ful)’ + man ‘man’.

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