Marchant
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Marchant
Frequency: (2151)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English and French: variant of Marchand.
FOREBEARS: John Marchant (c.1600-c.1668) was in Newport, RI, before 1638. In that year he moved to Braintree, MA, then to Watertown, MA (1642), and finally to Yarmouth, MA (1648). His descendants included many sea captains and other prominent people.
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