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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German ōt, Old Saxon ōd ‘possession’, ‘wealth’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Löbau, or perhaps from Oppeln in Silesia.

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