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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Swedish, German, or Yiddish flink ‘quick’, ‘agile’, ‘nimble’. As a Swedish name it is one of the group of ‘soldiers’ names’, monothematic names adopted by peasants serving in the army and later transmitted to their descendants.

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