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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Suffolk, of Norman origin) : nickname for someone with silvery hair, a variant of Argent, with the French definite article l(e).
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a silversmith, from French argent ‘silver’.

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