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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name See

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and German : topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English see ‘sea’, ‘lake’ (Old English ), Middle High German . Alternatively, the English name may denote someone who lived by a watercourse, from an Old English sēoh ‘watercourse’, ‘drain’.

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