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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of a number of places so called, for example in Tyne and Wear, Northamptonshire, and Hampshire, named in Old English with sūþ ‘south’ + wīc ‘dwelling’, ‘dairy farm’.

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