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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Austrian) : from a pet form of the Slavic personal name Janda, or from a Germanic personal name, probably Gando, a short form of a word possibly meaning ‘magic’, or, according to Finsterwalder, from Jan, a Tyrolean family name, a short form of Johann.

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