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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hispanic (Mexico) : unexplained.
  • South German : habitational name for someone from a place called Sill, in particular one on the Salzach river, or from a farm so named in the Tyrol, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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