Morphew
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Frequency: (537)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: 1. descriptive nickname from Middle English morphew ‘blemish’, ‘birthmark’, from Italian morfea. 2. According to Reaney, an Anglo-Norman French nickname from Old French malfé, malfeü, from Latin malefatus, malefatutus ‘ill-fated’, a derogatory term for a Saracen or the devil.
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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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