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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English

Meaning & History

It comes from when the family lived in or near the precincts of a church. Churchyard belongs to the large class of Anglo-Saxon topographic surnames, which were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as "a hill", "stream", "church", or "type of tree".
Added 12/21/2021 by CapriJS98