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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic) : from the male personal name Maymon, derived from Arabic maymun ‘luck’, ‘good fortune’. Ashkenazic Jews started to use this personal name due to the fame of the medieval Sephardic religious scholar Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides).

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