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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living by a pool or marsh (see Flash).
  • Possibly also an Americanized form of German Flaschner, an occupational name for a bottle maker, from an agent derivative of Middle High German vlashe ‘bottle’.

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