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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : (Döde): in the north, from a Germanic personal name Duco (see Dietz).
  • German : perhaps a nickname for someone with a grim or cadaverous appearance, a Low German homonym of tot ‘dead’, but probably from an old nursery word dot ‘godfather’, Middle High German dode.

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