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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : variant of Smiley.
  • Scottish : from a derivative of Middle English smil, smel ‘odor’, hence a nickname for someone notorious for giving off a smell that was obnoxious even by medieval standards, or for someone who made great use of perfumes and pomanders to counteract this trait.

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