English Explanatory Dictionary

Herrick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A village in Shelby County, Illinois.
  4. A township in Knox County, Nebraska.
  5. A ghost town and former mining community in Jefferson County, Ohio.
  6. A township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
  7. A township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
  8. A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota.
  9. A rural locality in Dorset council area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.

Word forms

Herrick

Etymology

* As an English surname, from Old Norse Eiríkr. * As a Dutch surname, from an assimilated Dutch form of Henry (also see Henrick), or from the Germanic elements *harjaz (“army”) + *rīks (“ruler”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó hEirc, "descendant of Earc," from earc (“speckled”). Compare Harkin from Ó hEarcáin.

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