Mick
A surname that is usually a shortened form of Michael or a related pet form of a given name.
The #6,416 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 58,265 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Mick is most often a nickname or shortened form of Michael, ultimately from Hebrew Mikha'el, meaning "Who is like God?" The same short form also appears in Germanic and Irish naming traditions, which helped it spread in several countries. In some cases it may simply record an informal pet form that later became hereditary.
History
The surname is found in English-speaking records as a shortened personal-name surname, and it also turns up in contexts where nicknames were commonly fixed as family names. Related forms such as Mickey and Mickey show the same diminutive pattern. Because short forms can arise independently in different places, the surname may have multiple local origins.
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Fun fact
Mick is also a common familiar short form of Michael in everyday speech, not just a surname.
From the historical record
“PENALMICK, PENALMICKE, anc. De PENAL- MICK. From the barton and manor of Penalmicke in Stithians, which Hals renders " the head or chief coat-of- mail armour ; so called for that such armour was made or lodged in this place in former ages by the possessors thereof." The name is rather from pen-elan-ick, the head of…”
— Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, the etymology of Cornish surnames