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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Picardy) : from a pet form of the personal name Marc, French form of Mark 1.
  • French (Picardy) : metonymic occupational name for a vine-grower, from Old French marcotte ‘vineshoot forming a layer’.

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