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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name, probably from Graveron Sémerville in Nord, named with the Germanic personal name Sigimar (see Siemer) + Old French ville ‘settlement’.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Somacháin (see Summers).

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