Scottish: unexplained. Black notes that ‘several persons of
this name are recorded in the Commissariot Records of Campsie and of
Lanark’. It is now very common in Scotland, especially around
Glasgow.
Jewish (of Sephardic origin): probably an Anglicized
form of Ephraim.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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