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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Fröhlich) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a person with a cheerful temperament, from German fröhlich ‘happy’, ‘cheerful’ (a derivative of froh ‘happy’, Middle High German frō).

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