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Gwen

Name origin: Irish

Name meaning: White wave; French version is Genevieve

Torrence

Name origin: Scottish and northern Irish

Name meaning: habitational name from either of two places called Torrance (one near East Kilbride, the other north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells), named with Gaelic torran ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, with the later addition of the English plural -s.

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