Last name: JANE
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Last name frequency
JANE : This last name is indexed 272,676 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
JANE : 1: English (Devon and Cornwall): variant of Jayne. As a personal name Jane was not specialized as a female form until the 17th century.2: Catalan (Jané): variant of Gener ‘January’.
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