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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the personal name Mary (Marie) or possibly sometimes from a pet form of the much less common male personal name Mark 1.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Marke, a variant of Mark.

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