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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CHURCH

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(origin: Local) A house of Christian worship, derived from the old English chirch, and Scottish Kirk, Latin circus, and this from the Gaelic cearcal, a temple, a round building. The root of Church is from the Gaelic car, roundness, from which we have cirke or kirke.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).