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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so called (for example, near Trier, and in former East Prussia). The place name is probably formed with an element meaning ‘dirty’.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name formed with od- ‘property’, ‘riches’.

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