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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a lost place in Yardley, Birmingham, recorded in 1645 as Puggmyre Farm. This derives from the name of its 13th-century landlord, Robert Pugg, whose surname is of unknown etymology, + Middle English myre ‘mire’, ‘bog’.

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