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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, Old French marque (Germanic marca); or a habitational name from places named Lamarque or La Marque.
  • French : metonymic nickname for someone with a noticeable birthmark or scar, or for someone who had been disfigured by branding (a relatively common medieval punishment), from Old French marque ‘mark’ (a transferred use of 1).

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