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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : from ante ‘duck’, probably applied as an occupational name for a fowler, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a duck.
  • Spanish : unexplained; possibly from Spanish ante ‘elk’; ‘suede’.

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