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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : of uncertain origin. There is a family tradition that the name is of Low German origin; probably a variant of Warns. There was fairly extensive migration from the Low Counties to East Anglia during the Middle Ages in connection with the wool trade.

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