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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : ethnic name for a Swede.
  • North German : from the medieval personal name Swider, Sweder, from a Germanic personal name composed with swi(n)d ‘strong’, ‘fast’ + heri ‘army’.

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