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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Bavarian) : occupational name for someone who bleached cloth, from an agent derivative of Middle High German sunnen ‘to bleach’.
  • South German (Bavarian) : habitational name for someone from a place named Sonne.

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