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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (especially Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived ‘by the hazels’, or a habitational name from Haslam in Lancashire, in both cases from Old English hæslum, dative plural of hæsel ‘hazel tree’. This surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.

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