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Gene
Name origin: Greek Name meaning: Well-born
Simmons
Name origin: English (southern) Name meaning: patronymic either from the personal name
Simon (see Simon) or, as Reaney and Wilson suggest, from
the medieval personal name Simund (composed of Old Norse
sig ‘victory’ + mundr ‘protection’), which after the
Norman Conquest was taken as an equivalent Simon, with the
result that the two names became confused.
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