Origin and popularity of the name RICARD

Origin

Ricard : 1: French: variant of Richard. Compare Recor Record Recore and Ricord.2: Channel Islands (Guernsey): variant of Rickard the characteristic Norman pronunciation of Richard.

Hick : 1: English: of Norman origin from the Middle English personal name Hikke a rhyming pet form of Ricard a Norman-Picard form of Richard. The substitution of H- as the initial resulted from the inability of the English to cope with the velar Norman R-. Compare Hitch.2: German Flemish and Dutch: from Hicke a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with hild ‘strife battle’ as the first element.3: German: from a pet form (see Huck) of the personal name Hugo.

Hickey : 1: Irish (Tipperary): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÍceadh ‘descendant of Ícidhe’ a common byname meaning ‘doctor healer’.2: English: from a diminutive of Middle English Hick a pet form of Ricard (see Richard and Hick).3: Americanized form of French Canadian Etier 2 (see also Ethier) and Hétu (see Hetu). Compare Hakey.

Higdon : English (Somerset):: 1: in Somerset probably a variant of the Devon name Heggadon a habitational name from Heggadon in Ashwater (Devon). The placename may derive from Old English hēah ‘high’ + dūn ‘hill’.2: from the Middle English personal name Hikedun a diminutive of Hick a pet form of Ricard (see Richard) + the Old French hypocoristic suffix -dun. For explanation of the initial H- see Hick.

McCrickard : Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Riocaird a patronymic from the Norman French personal name Ricard. See Rickard.

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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