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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Midlands) : from the Middle English personal name, a pet form of Sim.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from Simke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Sime (see Sima) with the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.

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