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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant of Oien.
  • Dutch and North German (Frisian) : topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow, Middle Dutch ooye, oye, Low German, Frisian oje, oye.
  • Norwegian (Øyen) : habitational name from any of various farmsteads named Øyen, from the definite singular form of øy ‘island’.

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