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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : From the sheep meadow
  • Old English : From the deep meadow

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English scēap, scīp ‘sheep’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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