Herrick

Meaning

Proper Noun

• village Shelby County (county) Illinois (state).
• A ghost town and former mining community in Jefferson (county) County, Ohio (state).
• small town Gregory County (county) South Dakota (state).

Origin

• 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 + *rīks.
• As an Irish surname, from Ó hEirc, "descendant of Erc," eventually meaning "speckled." Also spelled as Harkin.