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Elfriede

Name origin: German

Name meaning: Peaceful ruler

Jelinek

Name origin: Czech (Jelínek) and Jewish (from Bohemia and Moravia)

Name meaning: from a diminutive of Jelen. As a Jewish name it is mainly a translation of the Yiddish personal name Hirsh (see Hirsch).

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