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- ↑ Patrick Hanks; Richard Coates; Peter McClure, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9.
- ↑ Patrick Hanks, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-19-977169-1.
- ↑ W. H. McLeod (2009). The A to Z of Sikhism. Scarecrow Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-8108-6344-6.
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