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The Scottish surname Ramsay, also found in England is an habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), so called from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’. Simundus de Ramesie, the first of the name in Scotland, was a Norman baron from Huntingdonshire, England, who was granted lands in Midlothian by David, Earl of Huntingdon, and brother of Alexander I of Scotland, circa 1140. Another, Neis de Ramsey, physician to King Alexander II, was granted lands near Banff in 1232.The name is first recorded in the New World in 1663 when Margaret Ramsay arrived in Barbados. Today there are approximately 7,500 bearers of the name Ramsay living in the United States.

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