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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German zuoval ‘benefit’, ‘windfall’, hence a nickname for a lucky person or a status name for someone to whom a particular plot of communal land had been alloted.
  • occupational name for a tax collector, from an administrative term denoting a kind of tax.

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