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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : patronymic from the Czech personal name Marek, or a metronymic from Marusch, a pet form of the female personal name Margaret (see Margeson).
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or fen, a derivative of Middle Low German marsch ‘marsh’.

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