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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered form of German Jungels or a variant spelling of Junglas, a compound of jung ‘young’ + Clas, a short form of Claus (from Nikolaus, see Niklas), literally ‘young Claus’, distinguishing junior from senior.

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