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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : ethnic name, from Burgund- ‘Burgundian’, for a descendant of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, originally of northeastern Europe, around the Baltic Sea; later they migrated to the southwest and were for the most part wiped out in the middle Rhine area around ad 435.

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