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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Merseburg.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name, Hrodstein (hrōd ‘renown’).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental compound of German rot ‘red’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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