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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a loud person, from an agent derivative of Old High German dozzen ‘to bluster or thunder’.
  • German : in Austria (Tyrol) and Switzerland, topographic name for someone living on a ridge, from Ladin dos (Latin dorsum ‘ridge’, literally ‘back’), + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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