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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • American : Rancher

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Matlock in Derbyshire, named in Old English as ‘meeting-place oak’, from mæthel ‘meeting’, ‘gathering’, ‘council’ + āc ‘oak’.

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