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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in Devon, so called from Old English smæl ‘narrow’ + hrycg ‘ridge’, or a topographic name from Middle English smal ‘narrow’ + rugge, rigge ‘ridge’.

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