Dixie Name Origin and Family Crest

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Family name meaning

People named Dixie share an English surname with a long history. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “descendant of little Dick, a pet form of Richard (rule, hard)”.

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. The name also appears as Dixey. The 2010 US Census counted 472 people named Dixie, ranking it number 45,347 among American surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Dix.

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