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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern English : probably a topographic name referring to an enclosure (on upland pasture), where animals were kept in summer, from Middle English sumer, somer ‘summer’ + hay ‘enclosure’ (Old English (ge)hæg).

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