Palace
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Frequency: (140)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Probably an Americanized form of Spanish Palacio, Italian Palazzo, or French Palais, which is in some cases a habitational name, from places in Morbihan and Haute-Vienne called Le Palais or from Palais-du-Cros in Puy-de-Dôme, but in the South is from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Palladius (Greek Palladios).
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