Chip

Chip is an English diminutive nickname, most commonly derived from Richard through the intermediate short form Rick, with Chip arising as a rhyming reduction in the same pattern that produced Dick and Nick. It can also function as a diminutive of Charles or other names beginning with a similar sound. The phrase chip off the old block, used to describe a son who closely resembles his father, helped establish Chip as an independent given name in American English. Related forms include Skip and Rip, which follow a similar rhyming nickname pattern.