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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : originally from the female personal name Drude, which later became associated by folk etymology with Middle Low German, Middle High German drūt, trūt ‘dear’, ‘related’ and applied as a nickname, presumably for someone who frequently used this term of endearment or was referred to by it.

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