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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : unexplained. Black notes that ‘several persons of this name are recorded in the Commissariot Records of Campsie and of Lanark’. It is now very common in Scotland, especially around Glasgow.
  • Jewish (of Sephardic origin) : probably an Anglicized form of Ephraim.

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