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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name, a variant of Sand 1, from the genitive case of Middle High German sand ‘sand’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • German : habitational name for someone from the city of Xanten on the Lower Rhine.

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