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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German vlade ‘thin (sheet) cake’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a baker.
  • German : in southern Germany, a topographic name from Flad(e) ‘reed’, ‘sedge’.
  • German : variant of Flath 2.

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