Comments for the name Dick (2)

This name will be associated with the male organ forever.

Actually, this is a Dutch name and we don't use the word Dick the way you use it. I personally associate the name with the Dutch word "dik" which means "fat". On the whole, I don't really like this name.

A famous bearer is Dick Bruna, the creator of Nijntje, a very populair series of children's books in the Netherlands. Nijntje is known as Miffy in the US.

I actually used to like this name a lot. However, when talking to my friends one day about names we liked, I mentioned this, and they started to laugh hard.

Dick is not a diminutive: it is a short form of Diederik (and more of a contracted form for the spelling Diederick). If it were a diminutive, it would have the suffix -ie or -y, or -je (although the latter is least often seen with this name). Dutch diminutives are very specific in that regard.

A well-known Dutch bearer of this name is the film director Dick Maas (b. 1951), although in his case the name is a variant form of Dirk.