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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle German sonne, sunne ‘sun’, either a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a sun, or from a field name.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Sonne ‘sun’.

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