Semple Family History
Semple Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English, Old
French simple ‘simple’, ‘straightforward’, ‘humble’ (Latin
simplus).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Semple Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Semple families
 41 - 80  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Semple families
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30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Semple families
|
381 - 760 128 - 380 |
1 - 127 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Semple Family Origin
Semple Immigration Information
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Semple Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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