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The macon Surname

macon Name Meaning and History

(Maçon): occupational name for a mason, French maçon.
habitational name from places so called in Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Aube, the Côte d’Or, Gers, and Deux-Sères.
from the old oblique form of a Germanic personal name Mako, from Mago, a short form of a compound name formed with maht ‘strength’, ‘power’ as the first element.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of macon Families in the US in 1920

Number of macon families

45-88

16-44

1-15

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Thread	Author	Replies
Thomas L Macon - New Orleans LA	Dennis J Yancey	18
looking for nationality	April Lynn Macon	2
Carl Macon of De Leon, TX 1925	drbrownlee	0
Thomas Littleton Macon	Anne Leyden	2
Lillian Tallent Macon, age, 96, daughter of, Frank and Willa Mae Tallent	KENNELLYMARKA	0
thomas a. macon	foreverhulkamania	6
Josserand de Mâcon?	crawford19761	5
Major General Robert Chauncey Macon	croakers	3
Macon-Mullens marriage	shouston	11
Cecelia Gale	foreverhulkamania	0

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