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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Oppenländer) : in the northwest, a topographic name for someone from a higher or more southerly part of the country, from Low German op ‘up’, ‘on’ + land ‘land’ + the agent suffix -er.
  • German (Oppenländer) : in Württemberg, a topographic name from a field name, of unexplained etymology.

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