Last name: JERNIGAN
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JERNIGAN : This last name is indexed 13,118 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
JERNIGAN : English (Suffolk): of uncertain origin. Reaney believes it to be of Breton origin probably identical with the Old Breton personal name Iarnuuocon ‘iron famous’ taken to East Anglia by Bretons at the time of the Norman Conquest. Compare Journigan.
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