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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle Low German slot ‘lock’.
  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a drainage ditch (see Vandersloot).
  • German : variant of Schlott 2.

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