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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Lindenbaum, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a lime tree.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental adoption of 1.

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