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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Middle English personal name Osekin, a pet form of the various personal names with an Old English first element ōs ‘god’. Compare, for example, Osborn, Osgood, and Osmond, or its Old Norse cognate ás. For the inorganic initial H-, compare Herrick.

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