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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : (of Slavic origin) possibly a derivative of Old Slavic dobru ‘good’.
  • German : from a short form of the Germanic name Theudobert, Old High German Thiotprecht, (from diot ‘people’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘shining’).

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