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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Dolmetsch, an occupational name for an interpreter, late Middle High German tolmetsche, from Turkish tilmaç, via Hungarian tolmács. It is recorded as a surname in 1350 in Swabia.

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