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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Nottingham) : variant of Pound, with the addition of the habitational or agent suffix -er.
  • Probably a translation of South German Pfunder, Pfünder, occupational names for a weigh master or wholesaler, variants of Pfund with the addition of the agent suffix -er.

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