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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German of uncertain origin. : of uncertain origin. It may be from an old Germanic personal name.
  • German of uncertain origin. : Alternatively, perhaps, a nickname from a noun derivative of Low German blackern ‘to laugh foolishly’, ‘cackle’.

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