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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Dorfmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a villager or a countryman, literally ‘village man’, from Middle High German dorf ‘village’, Middle Low German dorp; German Dorf. Low German names were often standardized, i.e. adapted to High German Dorf.

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