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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a cooper, (standard German Fassbinder) from Middle High German faz ‘cask’, ‘barrel’ + binder ‘joiner’. This is a term used in northern Germany; terms used in other German-speaking regions are Böttcher, Büttner, Küfer, and Schäffler.

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