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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : literally a nickname for someone with a ‘red mouth’.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name composed of hrōd ‘renown’ + mund ‘protection’ with an added middle part -er to fit the form of 1.

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