Last name: DORSEY
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DORSEY : This last name is indexed 79,040 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DORSEY : English (East Yorkshire): of French origin a habitational name with French preposition d(e) from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne France or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
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