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Subject: Re: Fram?
Author: J.Y.   (guest, 87.102.9.10)
Date: August 10, 2007 at 11:55:50 AM
Reply to: Fram? by avesjohn
Old English word meaning "bold, active, strong" (Reaney and Wilson, "Dictionary of English Surnames"). Same source tells us it was "also used as a christian name".

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