Last name: CHURCH
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CHURCH : This last name is indexed 192,846 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CHURCH : Local. A house of Christian worship, derived from the old English chirch, and Scottish Kirk, Latin circus, and this from the Gaelic cearcal, a temple, a round building. The root of Church is from the Gaelic car, roundness, from which we have cirke or kirke.
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