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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Somhairle ‘son of Somhairle’, a Gaelicized form of an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements sumar ‘summer’ + liðr ‘seafarer’.

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