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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a topographic or habitational name composed with Middle High German ouwe ‘water meadow’ and a personal name Fin, Vin. (The Middle High German adjective fīn, a loan word from French, did not enter German before the middle of the 13th century, and the place names predate that time.)

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