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2. Moore (surname) - Wikipedia

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   The Møre surname is a place name derived from the Old Norse "Moerr", and the Norwegian word "Marr", meaning ocean, sea, or coastal district. Rollo, the famous Viking and founder of the Dukes of Normandy, may have been a member of this family, if his father - as some historians have it - was Rognvald Eysteinsson, Earl of Møre, Norway.

3. Surname - Wikipedia

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   A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [ 1][ 2] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.

4. Anderson (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Anderson is a surname deriving from a patronymic meaning "son of Ander / Andrew " (itself derived from the Greek name "Andreas", meaning "man" or "manly"). In Scotland, the name first appeared in records of the 14th century as "Fitz Andreu" (meaning son of Andrew), and developed in various forms by the Scottish Gaelic patronymic of ...

5. Sinclair (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Sinclair (surname) Taken from the hermit saint, ultimately from Latin clarus, meaning "pure, renowned, illustrious". The Scoto-Norman surname Sinclair comes from the Clan Sinclair, whose progenitors moved to Scotland and were given the land of Roslin, Midlothian by the King of Scots. The style "Sinclair" is the most common.

6. Brown (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Brown (surname) 7th century Old English word "brun" or the Old Norse personal name "Bruni". Brown is an English-language surname in origin chiefly descriptive of a person with brown hair, complexion or clothing. It is one of the most common surnames in English-speaking countries. [ 2] It is the most common surname in Jamaica, the second most ...

7. Cochrane (surname) - Wikipedia

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   Cochrane is a surname with multiple independent origins, two Scottish and one Irish. One of the Scottish names derives from a place in Scotland; the Irish surname and the other Scottish surname are both anglicisations of surnames from the Irish language and Scottish Gaelic respectively.