Last name: HEAD
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Last name frequency
HEAD : This last name is indexed 174,718 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HEAD : English: from Middle English heved hed ‘head’ (Old English hēafod) applied as a nickname for someone with a peculiarity or disproportion of the head or else used as a topographic name for someone who lived at the top (‘head’) of a promontory or hill or near the source of a stream or river or the head of a valley. This surname has long been established in Ireland.
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