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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : habitational name from a place or field named from Middle Low German flad ‘flowing water in a bog’.
  • German : nickname from Middle High German vlāt ‘cleanliness’, ‘neatness’, ‘beauty’, or from a personal name derived from this word.

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