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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Otting.
  • German (also Öttinger) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name denoting someone from any of the places called Otting or Öttingen, in Swabia, Bavaria, and the French province of Lorraine.
  • Swiss German : variant of Ottiger.

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