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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German, Middle Low German swan ‘swan’; a nickname derived for a very clean person or for someone with a long neck, or alternatively a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a swan.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Schwan ‘swan’.

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