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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old Norse : From the church

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from any of several places named as being a wood belonging to the Church or situated by a church (see Kirk). There are places so called in Ayrshire, Dumfries, and Lanarkshire.

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