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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : surname adopted with reference to Latin Nazarenus ‘of or pertaining to Nazareth’, the birthplace of Christ. The surname was adopted in particular among a group of German speakers who settled in the Volga basin in Russia in the 19th century.

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