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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German teic (modern German Teig) ‘dough’, Yiddish teyg.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads, so named from Old Norse teigr ‘strip of land’.

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