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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Cessán, a byform of Cessóg, a personal name of unknown origin, borne by a 6th-century bishop and martyr.
  • Dutch and German : from a pet form of the personal name Christian.

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