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Maxwell

Scottish (place name) · M

“Maccus's stream”

Where it comes from

Maccus + wiell, 'Maccus's stream or pool'

Fun Fact

The name comes from a place on the River Tweed in Scotland, and the physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who described electromagnetism, is its most famous bearer.

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