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samples Name Meaning and History

English (mainly Nottinghamshire): unexplained; probably a variant of Sample.

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

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Distribution of samples Families in the US in 1920

Number of samples families

54-106

19-53

1-18

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