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My dad's nn when he was little was "Butch" which was used for many little boys at that time and had nothing to with their given names. I can see "Dutch" kind of in the same way, though, my first thought was Douglas with its common beginning sound.

Yeah, it's the kind of name a cowboy would be given by his friends because he was Dutch, like the skinny one would get called Slim and the short one would be Shorty and the red-haired one would be Red.
Ronald Reagan was called Dutch because when he was a baby his father said "He looks like a fat little Dutchman."