Last name: ESSEX
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Last name frequency
ESSEX : This last name is indexed 45,838 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ESSEX : English: habitational name from the county of Essex whose name is from Old English ēast ‘east’ + Seaxe ‘Saxons’. In England the surname is now particularly common in Birmingham.
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