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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named from Old Norse mǫrk ‘forest pasture’ or mark ‘field’, ‘land’.
  • Swedish (Markén) : probably an ornamental name from mark ‘land’ + the adjectival suffix -én, from Latin -enius.

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