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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived by a lock or weir, Middle Dutch sluis. In some cases, it may be a habitational name from a place in the province of Zeeland, founded in the 13th century and named with this word.

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