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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained.
  • Danish : unexplained.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of Dutch Vlij, a topographic name from vallei ‘lowland’, ‘marsh’; in New Netherland this became a common term for a swamp.

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