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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a lad or a young man or farmer, from Middle High German vende, vent, vendel(in), Middle Low German vent ‘lad’, ‘page’, ‘little boy’. (In Old High German it denoted a foot soldier.)

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