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Return

Say it: rih-TERN

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Meaning

The English word return, read as a call to return to God.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

A New England Puritan name carried into the Revolutionary generation.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

  1. The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
  2. The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837

Used by

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Famous bearers

  • Return Jonathan Meigs, Revolutionary War officer

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Where this comes from

  • Colonial records of the Americas

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