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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss and South German : literally ‘old master’, hence an older person of high status, as distinguished from a younger member of his family; also a name for a servant in the retinue of such a person.
  • Swiss and South German : habitational name from a place so called near Leipzig.

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