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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and English : metronymic from a feminine form of the regional name from Old French angevin ‘man from Anjou’. Anjou is a province of western France that was ruled by a count as an independent territory from the 10th century. It became a property of the English Crown for fifty years at the end of the 12th century.

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