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Yes, CapK.
from Origins A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Eric Partridge:
Dickens, for *Diccons for Diccon's or Dickon's (son), Diccon being an extn of Dick, pet-form of Richard, itself adopted from F, of Gmc origin
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