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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from the Slavic place names Zehma, near Altenburg, or Zehmen, near Leipzig.
  • German : (of Slavic origin) topographic name from Slavic zemja ‘earth’, ‘land’, probably noting a new settler.

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