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The maxwell Surname

maxwell Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a place near Melrose in Roxburghshire. The place name is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack’s spring or stream (Old English well(a))’.
  2. Irish: this surname is common in Ulster, where it has sometimes been adopted as an alternative to Miskell.
  3. Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

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

Distribution of maxwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of maxwell families
 360-718
 121-359		 1-120
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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