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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : patronymic from Ode.
  • North German : topographic name from Low German Ohe ‘water meadow’, from Middle Low German ō ‘island’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this element, such as Ohe near Hamburg.

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