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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place called Arensdorf or Ahrensdorf, ‘village of A(h)rens’ (see Arend and Dorf). There is one Arensdorf near Frankfurt an der Oder and there are several places called Ahrensdorf north and south of Berlin.

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