Last name: MERCHANT
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MERCHANT : This last name is indexed 51,430 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MERCHANT : 1: English: occupational name for a buyer and seller of goods from Old French Middle English march(e)ant Late Latin mercatans (see Marchand).2: Indian (Gujarat and Mumbai): Muslim and Parsi occupational name for a trader from the English vocabulary word merchant.
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