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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Dören) : habitational name from any of the places named Döhren, in Hannover and Westphalia (several), or a shortened form of various compound names beginning with Doren-, for example Dorenberg, Dorendorff.
  • Possibly Dutch : reflex of Doorn with epenthesis.

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