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First name origin & meaning:

Hebrew: Simplistic

First name variations: Simpsen, Simpsun, Simson

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish and northern English: patronymic from Sim.
  2. English: habitational name from any of three places in Devon, so named from Old English personal name Sigewine + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Famous people with this last name: O.J. Simpson

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