Last name: SOUTH
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Last name frequency
SOUTH : This last name is indexed 133,738 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SOUTH : English: from Middle English south ‘south’ denoting someone who had migrated ‘from the south’ especially someone from southern England living in the north of the country. It may also have been used as a topographic name to denote someone living in the southern part of a settlement or region. Compare Southern.
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