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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : from a derivative of a Germanic personal name (see Ade).
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German ader ‘vein’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a barber-surgeon, one of whose functions was to let blood.

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