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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Rhineland) : from Middle High German siben ‘seven’ + aller ‘alder’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a group of seven alder trees, or a habitational name from Siebenaler in Luxembourg.

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