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Updated March 7, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German sun, son, German Sohn ‘son’, hence a distinguishing epithet for a son who shared the same personal name as his father.
  • Korean : variant of Son.

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