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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Verden an der Weser.
  • South German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German blenden ‘to darken’, hence an occupational name for a dyer of silk, or for a painter, plasterer, or someone who erected shingle siding.

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