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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name, with fused preposition d(e), for someone from Anizy in Calvados, France, recorded in 1155 in the form Anisie. The place name is probably derived from the Romano-Gallic personal name Anitius (of uncertain origin) + the locative suffix -acum.

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