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ramsey Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), so called from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’. There are other places in England called Ramsey, but the one in Huntingdonshire is almost certainly the source of the surname. The usual spelling of the surname in Scotland is Ramsay.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ramsey Families in the US in 1920
Number of ramsey families
 373-743
 125-372		 1-124
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