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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad : from a variant of the Indian personal name Mahadev, from Sanskrit mahādeva ‘the great god’ (from mahā ‘great’ + deva ‘god’), an epithet of the god Shiva.

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