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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Devon) : habitational name from a farm in North Devon on a spur of Exmoor, named with the Old English personal name Hōc or Old English hōc ‘hook or spur of land’ + stapol ‘post’.

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