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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German (Mecklenburg, Pomerania) : of uncertain origin. In northern Germany it may perhaps be from an onomatopoeic name of the hoopoe (Latin upupa), a variant of Puvogel; otherwise of Slavic origin.

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