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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and French : regional name for someone originally from the district bounded by the mid-Rhine, Mosel, and Ardennes known as the Eifel. The first record of the place name occurs ad c.800 in the Latin form in pago Aflense or E(i)flense.

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