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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name, or ornamental-occupational name for a jeweler, from German Edelstein in the sense ‘precious stone’.
  • German : habitational name from a place named with Middle High German adel ‘nobility’ + stein ‘rock’, ‘castle’.

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