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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : Nickname from Old High German blanc ‘bright’, ‘white’.
  • German : From Middle Low German plengen ‘to stir’, ‘bring about strife’, ‘deceive’, hence an unflattering nickname for a troublemaker.
  • German : unexplained.

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