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[Facts] Heyka
I was asked about the name Heyka. It is a German female name, and there seems to be also a name Heika which could be a spelling variant of Heyka.I guess that Heyka/Heika is just a variant of Heike, a short form of the German female variant of Henry, but could not come up with any hard information.Can anyone confirm (or refute) my guess?
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HEIKA does exist in Germany as a (Latinized) variant of HEIKE. There is also HEYKO as a fancyful spelling of HEIKO. So why not HAYKA?!This is from: Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch I-IV, 2000 ff.
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