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Ess

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone living on or owning land that was waterlogged or partly surrounded by water, from Middle Low German es ‘swamp’, ‘water’.
  • Swiss German : unexplained.

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