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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English serm(o)un ‘sermon’, a metonymic occupational name for a preacher, or perhaps a nickname for a long-winded and pompous person.
  • Dutch : variant of Simon, with epenthetic -r-.

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