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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the personal name Severin. This was the name of two saints in particular: the first was an early bishop of Cologne (died c. 400); the second was a missionary in the Roman province of Noricum (Austria), who died in 482.

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