Madison
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Frequency: (8189)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: metronymic from the medieval female personal name Madde, a form of Maud (see Mould 1) or Magdalen (see Maudlin).
FOREBEARS: James Madison (1751-1836), 4th President of the U.S. (1809-17), was born in VA, the son of a planter. He was descended from John Madison, a ship's carpenter from Gloucester, England, who had settled in VA in about 1653.
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