Azure
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Frequency: (293)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Origin unidentified. Evidently from French azure ‘blue’, but the details of the origin as a family name are unclear. There are several Azure families living on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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