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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of belts and girdles, from Middle English ceinture, ceintere ‘girdle’.
  • Possibly an Americanized form of German Zehnder, a variant of Zehner.

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