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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of the German surname Ermentraut, a metronymic from a female Germanic personal name, of which the English cognate is Ermintrude. It is composed of the elements ermin- ‘world’, ‘great’ + drūd ‘strength’ or trūt ‘beloved’.

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