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Family name origins & meanings:

  • German : from an old personal name based on an element cognate with Old High German tarhnen ‘to conceal’, tarni ‘secretly’.
  • German : possibly a habitational name from Derne near Dortmund or Dehrn on the Lahn river, Hesse.

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