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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place on the Weser called Vlotho (earlier Vlotuwe, from a cognate of Flood), or another in Mecklenburg, near Penzlin, called Flotow, which is of Slavic origin.

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