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Historical communities of Jews in West Africa
by 3000 BCE. The history of the Jews in West Africa includes the following important countries (alphabetically): The history of the Jews in Benin, formerly
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communities of continental Africa include: Sephardic Jews and Mizrahi Jews who predominantly live in the Maghreb of North Africa, including Moroccan Jews, Algerian
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The history of the Jews in Nigeria is a complex subject. The historic presence of Judaism in Nigeria is a cause of debate, as there are several Judaic-oriented
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the figure is closer to 75,000. As of 2026, the Jewish Agency for Israel estimates that the figure is 61,000. The history of the Jews in South Africa
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Africa. The history of the Jews in Southern Africa is based mainly in the following countries (alphabetically): The recorded history of the Jews in Angola
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The history of the Jews of Ghana, previously known as the Gold Coast, is marked by a small presence. The contemporary Jewish community is small and mostly
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The history of the Jews in Mali dates back to the 8th century CE. Today, around 1,000 descendants of Jews live in Mali, mostly in or near Timbuktu. The
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The history of the Jews in Alsace is one of the oldest in Europe. It was first attested to in 1165 by Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote about a "large number
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Westernmost region of the African continent
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin
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Jews in Eritrea can trace their history back to the late 19th century arrival of Yemenite Jews. Eritrea once had a small community of Yemenite Jews who
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The history of the Jews in the Gambia dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when Sephardi Jewish explorers and traders came to the region of Senegambia
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the East African Community that consists of eight states only, (3) the East Africa Protectorate that was basically Kenya. The history of the Jews in East
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The history of the Jews in Ivory Coast dates back at least 50 years. A small Jewish community has emerged in the capital city of Abidjan. Most Ivorian
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The history of the Jews in Benin, formerly known as Dahomey in Africa, is recent and the contemporary Jewish community in Benin is very small. In the
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The history of the Jews in Namibia (formerly South West Africa and before that German South West Africa) goes back a little more than one and a half centuries
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The history of the Jews in Guinea date back at least to the 15th century, when Sephardi Jewish traders and explorers arrived in the region from Portugal
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The history of the Jews in England can be reliably traced to the period following the Norman Conquest of 1066, when England became integrated with the
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The history of the Jews in Senegal has its origins in the Jews of Bilad al-Sudan, those Jewish communities in West Africa dating to the 14th century.
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The history of the Jews in Guinea-Bissau date back at least to the 15th century, when Sephardi Jewish traders and explorers arrived in the region from
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The history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Biblical times according to Jewish tradition, but the settlement of organised
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and the Canary Islands. The history of the Jews in North Africa is based mainly in the following countries (alphabetically): The history of Jews in Algeria
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The history of the Jews in Egypt goes back to ancient times. Egyptian Jews or Jewish Egyptians refer to the Jewish community in Egypt who mainly consisted
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The history of the Jews in Uzbekistan refers to the history of two distinct communities; the more religious and traditional Bukharan Jewish community and
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The history of the Jews in Mexico began in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos, often called Marranos or "Crypto-Jews", referring to those Jews forcibly
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African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. The history of the Jews in Central Africa is
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People who are both African American and Jewish
African-American Jews. Caribbean Jews became members of Ashkenazi Jewish synagogues in the United States and also contributed to the formation of early Black
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The history of the Jews in Japan reaches back to the 16th century and maintained a sporadic presence to the modern day. Early Jews in Japan arrived with
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and Muslim states in the 1940s–1950s. The native language of Kurdistani Jews was Judeo-Aramaic rather than Kurdish. As Kurdistani Jews natively adhere to
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The history of the Jews in Cameroon is obscure and found in several legends and myths. Today the Jewish community in Cameroon is small, with a handful
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The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages. France was a centre of Jewish
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The history of the Jews in Switzerland extends back at least a thousand years. Jews and Judaism have been present in the territory of what is now Switzerland
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modern history, not exceeding 5,500 since at least 1891. The earliest reference to the Jews in Ireland concerns the year 1079. The Annals of Inisfallen
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The history of the Jews in Malaysia dates back to the 1700s. Jews have lived in Malaysia either as immigrants or born in the country. The state of Penang
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The history of the Jews in Turkey (Turkish: Türk Yahudileri or Türk Musevileri; Hebrew: יְהוּדִים טוּרְקִים, romanized: Yehudim Turkim; (Ladino: Djudios
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History of the Jews in Malawi History of the Jews in Mozambique History of the Jews in South Africa History of the Jews in Southern Africa History of
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The history of the Jews in Botswana is relatively modern and centered in the city of Gaborone. Most Jews in Botswana are Israelis and South Africans. In
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The history of the Jews in Jordan can be traced back to Biblical times.[citation needed] Presently, there are no legal restrictions on Jews in Jordan,
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instead of Hebrew letters. The history of the Jews in Canada goes back to the 1700s. Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth
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The history of the Jews in Kuwait is closely connected to the history of the Jews in Iraq. The noted British businessman Naim Dangoor was an Iraqi Jewish
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The history of Jews in Algeria goes back to antiquity, although it is not possible to trace with any certainty the time and circumstances of the arrival
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The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back at least 2,500 years. Ancient Iranian tradition suggests that Jews settled in Balkh, a Zoroastrian and
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The history of the Jews in Iran dates back to late biblical times (mid-1st millennium BCE). The biblical books of Chronicles, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah
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originally Bukharan Jews. Jews first arrived in the eastern part of the Emirate of Bukhara, in what is today Tajikistan, in the 2nd century BC.[citation
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The history of Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. European Jews, a Semitic religion who they converted to from missionaries originating
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The history of the Jews in Tunisia dates back nearly two thousand years to the Punic era. The Jewish community of Tunisia grew following successive waves
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The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Assyrian captivity in the 8th century BCE and Babylonian captivity (c. 586 BCE). Iraqi
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The history of the Jews in Jamaica predominantly dates back to migrants from Spain and Portugal. Starting in 1509, many Jews began fleeing from Spain because
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The history of the Jews in Ethiopia dates back millennia. The largest Jewish group in Ethiopia is the Beta Israel. Offshoots of the Beta Israel include
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The history of the Jews in Libya stretches back to the 3rd century BCE, when Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, a part of
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The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki reaches back two thousand years. The city of Thessaloniki (also known as Salonika) housed a major Jewish community
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The history of the Jews in Greece can be traced back to at least the fourth century BCE. The oldest and the most characteristic Jewish group that has
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1942. Some Bukharan Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews, and Iranian Jews also lived in Kazakhstan. A Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Almaty is named after
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The history of Jews in Sweden can be traced from the 17th century, when their presence is verified in the baptism records of the Stockholm Cathedral. Several
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The History of the Jews in Kenya refers to the history of Jewish settlement in Kenya, which began in 1899. A Jewish community continues to live in Kenya
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The history of the Jews in Sudan goes back to a small but vibrant community of Jews who lived there from about 1885 to around 1970. Most of the community
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The history of the Jews in Morocco goes back to ancient times. Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community, with the oldest irrefutable evidence of
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The history of the Jews in Moldova reaches back to the 1st century BC, when Roman Jews lived in the cities of the province of Lower Moesia. Bessarabian
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The history of the Jews in Mongolia dates to the 19th century, when Jewish merchants from Siberia established trade links with Mongolian communities. A
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The history of the Jews in Sierra Leone date back at least to the 15th century, when Sephardi Jewish traders and explorers arrived in the region from
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The history of the Jewish people in China goes back to antiquity. Modern day Jews in China are predominantly composed of Sephardic Jews and their descendants
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The history of the Jews in Uganda is connected to some local tribes who have converted to Judaism, such as the Abayudaya, down to the twentieth century
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Arabia and the Horn of Africa there is no documented major presence of Jews in Djibouti until the 1800s. The history of the settlement of Jews in Djibouti
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the Jews in Tunisia History of the Jews in Morocco History of the Jews in Algeria History of the Jews in Libya Selzer, Claudia (1984). "The Jews in Carthage
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The history of the Jews in India dates back to antiquity. Judaism was one of the first foreign religions to arrive in the Indian subcontinent in recorded
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The history of the Jews in Vienna, Austria, goes back over eight hundred years. There is evidence of a Jewish presence in Vienna from the 12th century
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The history of the Jews in Perth, Australia dates back to 1829, shortly after Western Australia's admittance as a British colony. The community primarily
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The history of the Jews in Russia goes back to the beginnings of the Russian state. At one time, the Russian Empire hosted the largest population of Jews
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Jewish diaspora of Africa and Asia
North Africa, and parts of the North Caucasus. This includes Iraqi Jews, Iranian Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Afghan Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian
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the Cape Verdean American Business Association in 2010. History of the Jews in Africa Luso-Africans Lobban, Richard. "Jews in Cape Verde and on the Guinea
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The history of the Jews in Argentina goes back to the early sixteenth century, following the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Sephardic Jews fleeing persecution
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The history of the Jews in Guyana goes as far back as the 1600s. Representation has always been low, and by the 1930s there was neither an organized Jewish
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The history of the Jews in Cologne dates to 321 C.E., when they were first recorded in a census decreed by Emperor Constantine I. As such, it is the oldest
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The recorded history of the Jews in Angola stretches from the Middle Ages to modern times. A very small community of Jews lives in Angola mostly in the
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assumed that Jews resided in Venice since as early as the twelfth century, these claims have been demonstrated to be invalid and the first Jew documented
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The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the
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The history of the Jews in Zambia goes back to the early 1900s. Jews were always a small community with a notable role in Zambian history. The history
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The history of the Jews in Romania concerns the Jews both of Romania and of Romanian origins, from their first mention on what is present-day Romanian
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home to the fastest-growing Jewish population in the nation. The history of the Jews in Vancouver (also: Greater Vancouver and Metro Vancouver) in British
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Role of the Jews in the Crusades
The history of the Jews and the Crusades is part of the history of antisemitism toward Jews in the Middle Ages. The call for the First Crusade intensified
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The history of Portuguese Jews reaches back over two thousand years and is directly related to Sephardi history, a Jewish ethnic division that represents
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The history of the Jews in Peru dates back to the country's Spanish period with the arrival of migration flows of Sephardic Jews from Europe, the Near
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The history of the Jews in Albania dates back about 2,000 years. According to historian Apostol Kotani (Albania and the Jews): "Jews may have first arrived
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The history of the Jews in Mauritius goes back to the first Jews who arrived in Mauritius from Haifa, British Palestine (now Israel), in the 1940s because
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The history of the Jews in Monaco goes back at least a century, most notably to the time of the Holocaust. Monaco had a very small Jewish presence before
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Jewish communities in Somalia has been the subject of much speculation and debate throughout history.[citation needed] A small number of Jews, estimated to
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The history of the Jews in Turin, Italy, can be first traced to the 4th century when bishop Maximus of Turin recorded the presence of Jews in the city
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The history of Jews in Denmark goes back to the 1600s. Although there were very likely Jewish merchants, sailors, and others who entered Denmark during
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The history of Jews in Estonia starts with reports of the presence of individual Jews in what is now Estonia from as early as the 14th century. Jews were
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The history of the Jews in Haiti (French: Juifs en Haïti; Haitian Creole: Jwif Ayisyen yo) stretches from the beginning of the European settlement until
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The history of the Jews in Lebanon refers to the presence of Jews in Lebanon since biblical times. The number of Jews living in Lebanon dwindled during
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significant numbers of Russian Jews, Argentinian Jews, and French Jews as well as some Indian Jews, Ethiopian Jews and others. 22% of Montreal's Jewish
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The history of the Jews in Lesotho is connected to the much larger Jewish community of the surrounding country of South Africa. The Jewish community is
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The history of the Jews in Azerbaijan dates back many centuries. Today, Jews in Azerbaijan mainly consist of three distinct groups: Mountain Jews, the
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an organized Jewish community. Out of a population of 56,789 people in 2024, there was only one Jew. However, Jews have lived there temporarily, among
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Jews (Urdu: پاکستانی یہودی) are a small, historic community, mainly in Karachi. Most Pakistani Jews migrated to Israel after 1948. Jewish history in Pakistan
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The history of Jews in Australia traces the history of Australian Jews from the British settlement of Australia commencing in 1788. Though Europeans had
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The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian
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Syrian Jews descend from Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria since the time of Roman rule (known as Musta'arabi Jews or more generally as Mizrahi
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The history of the Jews in Slovenia and areas connected with it goes back to the times of Ancient Rome. In 2011, the small Slovenian Jewish community (Slovene:
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The history of the Jews in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The Jews of British India and Pakistan
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English
 Short form of English Jesse, JESS means "gift." Compare with feminine Jess.
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English (found chiefly in the West Midlands and in Ireland)
English (found chiefly in the West Midlands and in Ireland) : habitational name from Hodnet in Shropshire, or any of various places called Hoddnant in Wales. The place names are from Welsh hawdd ‘pleasant’, ‘peaceful’ + nant ‘valley’, ‘stream’.
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English (common in West Yorkshire)
English (common in West Yorkshire) : habitational name from Hainworth in West Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Hagena + Old English worð ‘enclosure’.English (common in West Yorkshire) : habitational name from Ainsworth in Lancashire, from the Old English personal name Ægen + worð ‘enclosure’. Names such as de Haynesworth and de Heynesworth occur in the surrounding area in the 14th century.
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English (West Midlands) : habitational name from Pearshall in Staffordshire.
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English and German : from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a regional name for someone who had migrated from further west.This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
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English : ethnic name for a Jew, from Middle English jeu ‘Jew’, Old French giu.English : from a short form of Julian.Chinese : possibly a variant of Zhou.Chinese : possibly a variant of Zhao.
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West meadow.English surname Westley.
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Welsh pet form of Greek Hagne (English Agnes), NEST means "chaste; holy."
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Form of Wesley; The West Meadow
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Hebrew Scottish
Rich. God beholds. The daughter of Shylock in Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice'.
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English (Wales and the West Midlands) : variant of Hollifield.
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Irish form of French Madeline, MADAILÉIN means "of Magdala."
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West town. Surname.
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English (widespread, but especially common in the West Midlands)
English (widespread, but especially common in the West Midlands) : topographic name for someone who lived in a white house, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hous ‘house’, or a habitational name from a place named with these elements, as for example Whittas in Cumbria.
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Danish and German : variant of Wente.English : topographic name from Middle English went(e) ‘crossroad’.
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English (chiefly in the West Midlands) : topographic name for someone who lived by an extensive (Middle English long) marsh or fen (Middle English more).
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English (West Midlands) : habitational name from the region of Powis in North Wales.
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West Town; Surname; From the Western Stream
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English (most common in the West Country) : nickname from Middle English swete ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’. The Old English bynames Swēt(a) (masculine) and Swēte (feminine) derived from this word survived into the early Middle English period, and may also be sources of the surname.Translation of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess.In New England, a translation of French Ledoux.
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 Short form of English Jessica JESS means "one who beholds" or "one who looks out." Compare with masculine Jess.
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