Chuck
[tʃʌk]Meaning
diminutive of Charles
Background Story
Chuck is a diminutive of Charles. It originated in America in the early 20th century. Behind the Name records it as a masculine given name or nickname used in Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German and Germanic. Wiktionary also records Chuck as a shortening of Edmonchuk, so named for the city's large Ukrainian population, after the Ukrainian surname suffix -чук.
Temperament
Variations
charles, chucky
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