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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Dröge) : see Droege.
  • German : from a byname of uncertain derivation, cognate with German Trug- ‘deception’, ‘illusion’ or Old Norse drog ‘load’.
  • Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch droog ‘dry’, ‘boring’, ‘unfriendly’.

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