Last name: RICKS

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RICKS : This last name is indexed 30,619 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RICKS : 1: English: variant of Rick with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. See also Rickson.2: English: topographic name from Middle English rixe rexe (Old English rixe a West Saxon metathesized form of Old English risc rysc ‘rush’) wash. The surname probably originally denoted someone who lived where rushes grew or it may be a habitational name from a place so named such as Rix (Devon).

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