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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : variant of Small.
  • English : habitational name from a lost place in eastern Sussex named Smeghel, from Old English smēagel ‘burrow’, or from Brooksmarle (now Broxmead) in Sussex (named with Old English brocc ‘badger’ + smēagel).

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