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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from any of various places, for example those in Fife and Angus, named from Gaelic dìseart ‘hermit’s cell’, ‘church’ (from Latin desertum ‘desert’, ‘waste’, ‘solitary spot’).

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