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Origin Of The Surname Parish
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Meaning Of The Surname Parish
The One who lived in the Parish
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Interesting
Facts About
Parish
Parish is thought to have several separate possible origins. It could be a locational surname, coming from Paris the capital city of France. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. So the original bearer of this surname may have come to England from Paris. There is also a chance that it was used as a patronymic surname given to pass down the name ‘Paris’ to the bearers kin, as Paris was used as a first name occasionally in Medieval England. The most likely origin however is from the Old English ‘parysche’ which means ‘parish’ referring to a religious division that has its own church. A person with this surname may have moved to a new area that did not class as a parish, and the surname may have been given to distinguish them as ‘the one who lived in the parish’. |
Parish Statistics
Parish is the number 1103 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,322 share the surname Parish in the UK.
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