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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (also common in the Czech lands) : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of bare, uncultivated land, from Middle High German (o)ed(e) ‘wasteland’. It may also be a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this element.

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