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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places named Felten or Velten.
  • German : shortened form of any of various habitational names or topographic names formed with -feld ‘open country’ (see Feld), as for example Kleinfelder.
  • German : variant of Falter.

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