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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish diner ‘servant’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname from an inflected form of Yiddish din ‘thin’. Compare Din.

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