Last name: SHAKESPEARE
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SHAKESPEARE : This last name is indexed 25,638 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHAKESPEARE : English: nickname from Middle English shak(en) ‘shake brandish’ + spere ‘spear’ presumably for a spearman or perhaps (with a slang sense of spear) for an exhibitionist.
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