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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone with deformed or otherwise remarkable toes, from Middle High German zēhe, zehe ‘toe’, ‘claw’. The term also meant ‘tough’, and in some cases the surname may have arisen from this sense.
  • German : variant of Zech 1.

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