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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, named from Middle English sale, sele ‘hall’, ‘manor’ + kirk ‘church’.
  • Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721), the Scottish sailor who was the model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, was also known as Selcraig. He was born in Largo, Fife, the son of a shoemaker.

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