Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from a lost place called Fleckenstein, in the Vosges mountains (Alsace).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name, from German Flecken ‘stain’, ‘spot’ (Yiddish flekn) + Stein ‘stone’.
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