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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named in Old English as ‘eagle’s nook’ or ‘Earn’s nook’, from Old English halh ‘nook’ (see Hale). Earn is the Old English word meaning ‘eagle’; it is also found as a personal name.

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