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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Thrän) : of uncertain origin; probably a variant of Thraene, a habitational name from any of several places so named in Thuringia and Silesia, or a nickname from Middle Low German trāne ‘tear’, ‘drop’.

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