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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Glöde) : habitational name from Glöthe near Calbe on the Saale river.
  • North German (Glöde) : metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, from Middle Low German glode, glude ‘iron’, ‘tongs’.

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