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Origin Of The Surname Masters
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Meaning Of The Surname Masters
Descendant of the Master
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Interesting
Facts About
Masters
Masters would have been used as the patronymic form of a nickname. The suffixed ‘s’ suggest this to us. It comes from the Old English ‘magister’ which means superior and would have been given as a nickname to a person who was known for being the most knowledgeable and educated in the town. Patronymic surnames were given to pass down the name of a person to their kin. In this case the surname ‘masters’ would have been given to the kin of a man nicknamed master. |
Masters Statistics
Masters is the number 1230 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,138 share the surname Masters in the UK.
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