Last name: TAIT
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TAIT : This last name is indexed 110,941 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
TAIT : Scottish and northern English: nickname for a cheerful person from Middle English and Older Scots tait(e) ‘merry eager lively’ (Old Norse teitr) also used as a personal name. Compare Tate.
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