Argent
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Frequency: (176)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: from Old French argent ‘silver’, hence probably a nickname for someone with silver-gray hair, or possibly an occupational nickname for a silversmith or moneyer.
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