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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Dosse in Altmark.
  • German : variant of Dose 1.
  • German : in Austria (Tyrol) and Switzerland, a topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Ladin dos (from Latin dorsum ‘ridge’, ‘hill top’).

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