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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German Zeislof, a metathesized derivative of the Germanic personal name Zeissolf, a compound of zeiss ‘tender’, ‘kind’, ‘graceful’ (see Zeiss) + wolf ‘wolf’.

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