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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metronymic from a short form of the personal name Margery or Margaret (of which Margery was the usual Middle English form), derived via Old French Marguerite and Latin Marguerite, from Greek margaritēs ‘pearl’ (see Margetts).

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