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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named, of unexplained etymology.
  • German : topographic name from the Mosel river in western Germany, a tributary of the Rhine that rises in the Vosges and flows through Lorraine and then a deep, winding valley from Trier to Koblenz.

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