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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of any of several German habitational names : Rodenbach, Rothenbach, or Rottenbach, though probably for the most part of the first, Rodenbach, which is from any of several places in Hesse, Bavaria, or the Palatinate, so named from Old High German rōd ‘clearing’ + bach ‘creek’.

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