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I don't know if this will help, but my Swedish name dictionary lists Dika and Diken as short forms of Fredrika, and also includes Dyveke, which it says is a Danish name based on Dutch words for "little dove." Though I don't think any of those names would actually be pronounced much like "Dykie" in Scandinavia, I can see how someone from Scandinavia with one of those names working in Louisa, Virginia in the 1950s might get Dykie as a nickname.