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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Franzè) : from a shortened and altered form of francese ‘French’.
  • Variant of Dutch Franzen or Frans(s)en, patronymics from the personal name Frans (see Francis); the final -n is often dropped in Dutch, especially in the Amsterdam dialect.

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