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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : regional name for someone from Prussia (German Preussen), a former state of northern Germany, so called from the ethnic name of the Pruzzen, a Baltic people displaced by the Germans during the 13th century, or an ethnic name for a member of this people.

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