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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hispanic : unexplained.
  • German : of uncertain origin. From a short form of Antonius (see Anthony) or a humanist form of Ten, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a mintmaster, from Middle Low German tēn(e) ‘blank’ (metal piece from which coins were struck).

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