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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a variant of Flaitz, Flaiss, Swabian variants of Floss, a topographic name for someone near running water or a channel, or a metonymic occupational name for a raftsman, from Middle High German vlōz ‘current’, ‘stream’. Compare Floss.

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