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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Frisian : from a pet form of any of the masculine or feminine compound personal names with the first element Det-, Diet- (Germanic theudo- ‘people’, ‘race’) and a second element beginning with b- (e.g. -bern ‘bear’, -brand ‘sword’, or -burg ‘castle’, ‘fortified town’).

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