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American startup accelerator
Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more
Y_Combinator
Topics referred to by the same term
Y combinator may refer to: Y Combinator, an American tech startup accelerator Y combinator (mathematics), a fixed-point combinator This disambiguation
Y_combinator
Higher-order function Y for which Y f = f (Y f)
In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator) is a higher-order function (i.e., a function that takes a
Fixed-point_combinator
startups have completed the Y Combinator Accelerator program. In 2015, Mike Isaac described Y Combinator as: "Y Combinator accepts batches of start-ups
List_of_Y_Combinator_startups
American entrepreneur
led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y Combinator, and is a notable technology investor in companies such as Uber, Instacart
Daniel_Gross_(businessman)
Logical formalism using combinators instead of variables
extensional equality. A more interesting combinator is the fixed point combinator or Y {\displaystyle Y} combinator, which can be used to implement recursion
Combinatory_logic
Indian quick-commerce company
but that approach did not gain traction. They also participated in Y Combinator's accelerator program while building out the first version of the platform
Zepto_(company)
American businesswoman and writer (born 1971)
best known for being a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator. Livingston was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later relocated to
Jessica_Livingston
American venture capitalist (born 1981)
Canadian-American venture capitalist who is the CEO of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and a founder of the venture capital fund Initialized Capital. He previously
Garry_Tan
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
Corporation for $43.4 million in March 2012. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm, and was the
Sam_Altman
English programmer, venture capitalist, and writer (born 1964)
Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He
Paul_Graham_(programmer)
Simple Turing complete logic
The SKI combinator calculus is a combinatory logic system and a computational system. It can be thought of as a computer programming language, though it
SKI_combinator_calculus
Managing director at Y Combinator
1982) is a partner at Y Combinator and the co-founder of two startups, Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. He first joined Y Combinator in 2013, advising hundreds
Michael_Seibel
Topics referred to by the same term
Y" YMCA, aka "the Y" YWCA, aka "the Y" Y (Cyrillic) y (IPA), the International Phonetic Alphabet letter for a close front rounded vowel Y combinator,
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American web developer and entrepreneur (born 1983)
talked with Graham after the lecture and he invited them to apply to Y Combinator, his startup incubator. Huffman came up with their original idea, My
Steve_Huffman
Pakistani-American businessman
of Applied Intuition. Prior to Applied Intuition, he was the COO of Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Talkbin (acquired
Qasar_Younis
Real-time text-to-speech AI tool
the tech industry instead after their startup was accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator in 2019. After their departure in early 2020, 15 returned
15.ai
British entrepreneur (born 1985)
(born 11 August 1985) is a British entrepreneur and a group partner at Y Combinator. Blomfield grew up in Buckinghamshire and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar
Tom_Blomfield
Ventures Venrock Versant Ventures Vivo Capital Walden International Y Combinator Abingworth Acton Capital Atomico Ventures Balderton Capital BGF Cottonwood
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US entrepreneur and business executive
brand aggregator. In March 2026, Starcloud became the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history, hitting a $1.1bn valuation just 17 months after completing the
Philip Johnston (entrepreneur)
Philip_Johnston_(entrepreneur)
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
was investment committee chair in 2012, and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017. He was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011, which
Peter_Thiel
Software company
company participated in the summer 2015 batch of startup accelerator Y Combinator who provided the seed funding, and it launched with 200 companies already
Ironclad_(software)
Online commerce platform based in India
the most influential companies of the year by Time (magazine). List of Y Combinator startups Social commerce Mukul, Pranav (28 April 2025). "IPO-bound Meesho
Meesho
US technology company
Twitter. The company was founded in 2005 and received initial funding from Y Combinator, and completed Series A and B financing led by Sequoia Capital and New
Loopt
American venture capital firm
including 90 in its portfolio and 66 startups through its funding of Y Combinator's Start Fund. The company invested $100 million in GitHub, which netted
Andreessen_Horowitz
American entrepreneur (born 1983)
was also a partner at the startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator. Ohanian is based in Florida where he lives with his wife, tennis player
Alexis_Ohanian
American artificial intelligence company
co-founder: Sam Altman, former president of the start-up accelerator Y Combinator President and co-founder: Greg Brockman, former CTO, 3rd employee of
OpenAI
Software company
was founded in 2011, and officially launched in 2012 as part of the Y Combinator startup accelerator program. As a low-code/no-code platform, Zapier is
Zapier
American personal finance software company
firm. In 2010, Yodlee partnered with Y Combinator, providing its financial services platforms to all Y Combinator–funded companies. Yodlee then was said
Yodlee
American internet entrepreneur and investor
renamed to Stash in 2024. He was a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. He gained widespread attention for his "lifecasting" experiment on Justin
Justin_Kan
AI-dependent computer programming
enthusiasm stemmed from reproduction, not originality. In March 2025, Y Combinator reported that 25% of startup companies in its Winter 2025 batch had codebases
Vibe_coding
American insurance carrier
founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan, The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Laqua serves as chief executive officer and chief
Corgi_(insurance_company)
Muslim dating app
respects Islamic values. It quickly gained traction, securing funding from Y Combinator and other investors. Significant milestones include hitting one million
Muzz_(dating_app)
Financing vehicle for startup businesses
but with fewer complications", according to startup accelerator Y Combinator. Y Combinator released the Simple Agreement for Future Equity ("SAFE") investment
Simple agreement for future equity
Simple_agreement_for_future_equity
American software company
high-profile data breaches in the technology industry, Vanta emerged from the Y Combinator startup accelerator program. In its early years, the company grew with
Vanta_(company)
Canadian-American billionaire
beer from 21st Amendment Brewery to a Y Combinator partner and was admitted to the summer of 2012 batch. Y Combinator helped Mehta raise $2.3 million in
Apoorva_Mehta
American social news website
entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that
Hacker_News
Private Delaware-based payroll and compliance provider
about visa processes to companies. Deel launched after entering the Y Combinator startup accelerator in 2019. The company then raised several rounds of
Deel,_Inc.
Irish-American entrepreneur (born 1990)
software company that built tools for the eBay platform and funded by Y Combinator. Collison later moved to Silicon Valley. Auctomatic was acquired for
John_Collison
American software company
company graduated from Y Combinator's startup accelerator in 2013. Webflow raised venture funding from Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Tim Draper, and other
Webflow
Question-and-answer website
valuation. Quora was one of the Summer 2014 Y Combinator companies, although it was described as "the oldest Y-Combinator ever". In March 2016, Quora acquired
Quora
Hybrid-electric aircraft manufacturer
Säve Airport near Gothenburg. The company participated in the 2019 Y Combinator's Winter Batch and subsequently unveiled its design for the ES-19 all‑electric
Heart_Aerospace
American company
proprietary technology. In March 2026, Starcloud became the fastest unicorn in Y Combinator history, hitting a $1.1bn valuation just 17 months after completing the
Starcloud
websites used for online chat. Chat room Shu, Catherine (5 August 2013). "Y Combinator Startup 7 Cups Of Tea Connects People In Need Of Emotional Support With
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Type of experiments
as well as reduction in parental alcohol consumption. In May 2016, Y Combinator, an American company with the aim of providing seed funding for start-up
Universal_basic_income_pilots
American businessperson (born 1983)
Michael Seibel. Shear and Justin Kan were part of Y Combinator's first class in 2005. As part of Y Combinator, the two built a calendar application called
Emmett_Shear
American data annotation company
Droege. Scale was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo through Y Combinator. The pair had worked together at Quora. Initial investors of Scale included
Scale_AI
Organization that invests in startups
application process is open to anyone but highly competitive. For instance, Y Combinator and TechStars have application acceptance rates between 1% and 3%. Seed
Startup_accelerator
American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
the first web applications, and later the venture capital funding firm Y Combinator, both with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston and Trevor Blackwell. He later
Robert_Tappan_Morris
Software company based in India
acquired Requestly, an HTTP interception and mocking tool backed by Y Combinator, for an undisclosed amount. In June 2025, BrowserStack announced the
BrowserStack
American programmer
Blackwell is the founder and former CEO of Anybots and a partner at Y Combinator. Blackwell grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Blackwell studied
Trevor_Blackwell
Founder, entrepreneur, and investor
Collison. It was on-boarded to Y Combinator that same year. Since Taggar and his co-founders were "non-technical," Y Combinator accepted them with the condition
Harj_Taggar
American computer programmer and entrepreneur
co-authoring Etherpad, co-founding AppJet, and for his work as a partner in Y Combinator. Iba graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005
Aaron_Iba
Cloud storage and file synchronization service
Ferdowsi as a startup company, with initial funding from seed accelerator Y Combinator. Dropbox has experienced criticism and generated controversy for issues
Dropbox
American venture capital fund
cryptocurrency app's founder Brian Armstrong $200,000. Garry Tan left Y Combinator in 2015 to focus on Initialized full time. On June 7, 2016, the firm
Initialized_Capital
Chinese venture capital firm
independent firm after Y Combinator China was closed. It is one of the largest startup accelerators in China. In 2018, Y Combinator (YC) established a unit
MiraclePlus
2023 business action
deception and subversiveness that ostensibly resulted in his removal from Y Combinator ultimately resulted in the board's decision to remove him. In April 2026
Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI
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American founder, entrepreneur, and investor
$500 million. Since 2023, Bosmeny has been a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator. Bosmeny attended Harvard University where he was awarded both a AB in
Tyler_Bosmeny
Software company headquartered in San Francisco, California and Toronto, Canada
and Jeremy Stoppelman. Smith began Lever in 2012 and was accepted into Y Combinator with the goal of applying this framework to the problem of hiring talent
Lever_(company)
American social news and discussion site
idea, Huffman and Ohanian were accepted in Y Combinator's first class. Supported by the funding from Y Combinator, Huffman coded the site in Common Lisp and
American venture capital firm
in the world with an average deal count of 929 per year, followed by Y Combinator and Techstars. Founder Saeed Amidi came from a family of Iranian immigrants
Plug_and_Play_Tech_Center
Meal delivery service and oven manufacturer
2016 that raised $256,000. That year, it was also accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator program. Tovala launched to the general public in 2017. It
Tovala
Technology company
social media profiles. Snappr's key investors include seed accelerator Y Combinator. Snappr was founded in May 2016 by Matt Schiller and Ed Kearney in Sydney
Snappr
Iranian-born American businessman (born 1973)
Twitter. He left Twitter in 2014. In November 2014, Rowghani joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner focusing on helping YC alumni scale their companies
Ali_Rowghani
American startup supersonic aircraft company
in 2014. It participated in a Y Combinator startup incubation program in early 2016, and has been funded by Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Alex
Boom_Technology
Healthcare data provider
its first market offering, Da Vinci, and subsequently participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. In August 2021, H1 acquired Portland, Oregon startup
H1_Inc.
English charitable non-profit
including Y Combinator, MassChallenge, and Forward Partners. In September 2016, Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, wrote on the Y Combinator blog: "Many
Founders_Pledge
Internet-based grocery delivery service
beer from 21st Amendment Brewery to a Y Combinator partner and was admitted to the summer of 2012 batch. Y Combinator helped Mehta raise $2.3 million in
Instacart
Software for deploying containerized applications
was founded by Kamel Founadi, Hykes, and Sebastien Pahl during the Y Combinator Summer 2010 startup incubator group and launched in 2011, and renamed
Docker_(software)
South Korean-American businessman
moonshot project at Y Combinator, where Huh worked after leaving The Cheezburger Network. The company raised $17M from Y Combinator and Founders Fund and
Ben_Huh
American recreational mathematician (born 1988)
Schelling's Dynamic Models of Segregation. In May 2016, eleVR joined Y Combinator Research (YCR) as part of the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC)
Vi_Hart
American businessman (born 1981)
Chesky. He met Michael Seibel at SXSW, who would later connect him with Y Combinator and led to significant investment for Airbnb. The company re-launched
Brian_Chesky
American Internet entrepreneur
cum laude. Bernstam attended the Y Combinator program in 2006, launching Scribd. He went on to attend the Y Combinator program again in 2011, this time
Tikhon_Bernstam
US entrepreneur
Policy from Harvard University in 2005. Selkoe is also an alumnus of Y Combinator. In 2000, at the age of 25, Selkoe founded Karmaloop from his parents'
Greg_Selkoe
American computer programmer and activist (1986–2013)
fall of 2005, he worked with his fellow co-founders of another nascent Y Combinator firm, Reddit, to rewrite its Lisp codebase using Python and web.py. Although
Aaron_Swartz
American businessman (born 1983)
and JavaScript to buy and store cryptocoins. In 2012, he entered the Y Combinator startup accelerator and received a $150,000 investment, which he used
Brian_Armstrong_(businessman)
American online clothing platform
GOAT is an American online platform offering sneakers, streetwear, luxury apparel and accessories through the primary and resale markets. Founded in 2015
GOAT_(platform)
New company developing a novel, scalable business
companies. In 2005, a new Accelerator investment model was introduced by Y Combinator that combined fixed terms investment model with fixed period intense
Startup_company
American cloud computing company
a Y Combinator and Matrix Partners backed startup that enables developer teams to preview frontend content. On November 17, 2021, Netlify acquired Y Combinator
Netlify
Open source time series database
the Rust programming language. Versions 1.x and 2.x are written in Go. Y Combinator-backed company Errplane began developing InfluxDB as an open-source project
InfluxDB
Iraqi on-demand delivery company
cities across Kurdistan Region. The super-app is the first and only Y Combinator-backed startup in Iraq. Lezzoo was founded in February 2018 by Fastwares
Lezzoo
Software technology company
California, by Joris Poort (CEO) and Adam McKenzie (CTO), Rescale launched in Y Combinator and has been recognized as a top company multiple times, and as recently
Rescale
American fintech company
billion, making Flutterwave a unicorn. Investors in Flutterwave include Y-Combinator, Visa Ventures, Mastercard, Avenir Growth Capital, and Tiger Global Management
Flutterwave
British philanthropist (21st century)
with William MacAskill. In 2015, the organization was accepted into the Y Combinator startup accelerator program. Todd wrote the book 80,000 Hours: Find a
Benjamin_Todd
Canadian startup from the University of Waterloo
BufferBox was awarded the 2012 Velocity Venture Fund, and went through the Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley. After conducting a pilot trial at the University
BufferBox
Email service provided by Google
mid-size tech and media companies, and startup companies from the last Y Combinator incubator class), only one Fortune 50 company used Gmail – Google itself
Gmail
American scientist and entrepreneur
technology and theoretical physics. In 2007, he founded CO2Stats, a Y Combinator-funded company that measured the carbon dioxide emissions associated
Alexander_Wissner-Gross
American businessperson
by Marin Software for $25.5 million. In 2019, Flora was brought on to Y Combinator as a Visiting Group Partner. He was promoted to a Group Partner in 2021
Brad_Flora
American nuclear technology company
Oklo Inc. is a publicly traded American nuclear power company based in Santa Clara, California. The company develops a small modular nuclear reactor, the
Oklo_Inc.
JavaScript runtime
was led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Guillermo Rauch, Y Combinator, and others. On December 2, 2025, Jarred Sumner, creator of Bun, announced
Bun_(software)
Pakistani-American computer scientist
co-founded Stacks (formerly Blockstack) with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014. His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and
Muneeb_Ali
Therapy and mental health service
(as it was known then) was founded by psychologist Glen Moriarty as a Y Combinator startup. The company later rebranded itself as simply 7 Cups. The company
7_Cups
American businessman
Geoff Ralston is the former President of Y Combinator. He was the CEO of La La Media, Inc., developer of Lala, a web browser-based music distribution site
Geoff_Ralston
American technology company
Berlin (Germany), New York (US), and Amsterdam (Netherlands). Admitted to Y Combinator in 2021, the company specializes in embedded connectivity, enabling global
Gigs
American fusion research company
commercial electricity generation. In 2015, Helion participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator as part of its Summer 2013 (S14) batch. The management
Helion_Energy
Leadership concept coined by Paul Graham
Founder mode is a term used and popularized by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham in a September 2024 essay in response to a talk delivered by Airbnb
Founder_mode
AI chatbot app
at Luka, a tech company she had co-founded at the startup accelerator Y Combinator around 2012. Luka's primary product was a chatbot that made restaurant
Replika
Fintech company owned by Capital One
a VR startup. The founders were accepted into the Winter 2017 batch Y Combinator's 12-week accelerator program; 3 weeks in, they pivoted the company to
Brex
American accounting software and services company
Andy Su, and Andrea Barrica, indinero graduated the startup incubator, Y Combinator in 2010. On May 8, 2018, indinero acquired San Jose-based firm tempCFO
InDinero
Public university in Ontario, Canada
founded with the aid of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator include Pebble and Bufferbox. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham and president Sam Altman have
University_of_Waterloo
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Irish (chiefly County Down)
Irish (chiefly County Down) : variant of Prey.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English pre(y), Old French pree ‘meadow’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places deriving their name from this word, of which there are several examples in Surrey.
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English : from the medieval personal name Ton(e)y, a reduced form of Anthony.
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Indian
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English : probably either a topographic name from Middle English whin ‘whin’, ‘gorse’ (Old Norse hvin) + wra(y) ‘nook or corner of land’ (Old Norse vrá), or a habitational name from Whinneray in Gosforth, Cumbria, which may have the same origin.
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Australian, British, English, Teutonic
Queen
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Broad(e)y, named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’.English : habitational name from a place named as ‘broad island’, from Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + Ä“g ‘island’. There is a district of Stafford so named, on the western edge of the medieval town.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : perhaps a variant of Pa(y)ling, a variant of Palin.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Bühling, a habitational name from any of several places so named.
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English
English : unexplained. Possibly a habitational name from an Anglicized form of the Welsh place name Betws-y-coed ‘prayer house in the wood’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : probably a variant of Hanney.Scottish or Irish : reduced form of McHaney.Americanized spelling of Norwegian Hanøy, a habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named, from Old Norse haðna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock’s comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.Jewish (American) : Americanized form of various like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish names.
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English : nickname from Middle English boggish ‘boastful’, ‘haughty’ (a word of unknown origin, perhaps akin to Germanic bag and bug, with the literal meaning ‘swollen’, ‘puffed up’). The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
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English : habitational name from any of the places called Brierl(e)y, in the West Midlands, West and South Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all of which are named with Old English brǣr ‘briar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English
English : from Middle English pyion, peion ‘young bird’, ‘young pigeon’ (from Old French pijon), a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds were easily taken.English : altered form of the nickname Pet(y)jon (see Pettyjohn).Irish (County Monaghan) : local form of McGuigan, from Gaelic Mac Uiginn ‘son of the Viking’.
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Gift
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Rose
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English (Norman)
English (Norman) : nickname from a diminutive of Old French dur ‘hard(y)’.
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British, English
Love
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Welsh
Older form of Welsh Aneirin, possibly derived from a word related to Irish Gaelic nár, NEIRIN means "modest, noble." Neirin ap Dwywei was the name of the Welsh poet who wrote the Book of Aneirin and Y Gododdin.
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English
English : from Middle English gle(y)ve ‘sword’ (Old French gleive, glaive, Latin gladius), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of swords or a nickname for an accomplished swordsman.
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English
English : habitational name from Adeney in Shropshire, named in Old English as Ēadwynna ey ‘island of a woman called Ēadwynn’.English : from a Middle English pet form of Adam. Forms such as Adenet, Adinot, Addy, and Adey are all well attested.English : Possibly an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Aadnøy, a habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse {o,}rn ‘eagle’ + øy ‘island’.
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English
English : unexplained. It could be a habitational name from Ditsworthy in Sheepstor, Devon (which is perhaps named from a Middle English personal name Durke ‘the dark one’ + Middle English worth(y) ‘enclosure’) or from some other, unidentified place. The surname is not found in current English records.
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