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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Rüegsegger) : compound name from the personal name Rüeg (see Rugg) + Middle High German ecke, egge ‘corner’, ‘point’, hence a habitational name for someone living at a place known as Rüeg’s corner.

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