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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German (Früh) : from Middle High German vruo ‘early’, applied as a nickname for an early riser or, more likely, used ironically for a sloth, and sometimes for a child born before or very early in the marriage.

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