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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of Swiss German Schwarzentruber, Schwartzentrauber, an occupational name for a grower of black wine grapes, from Middle High German swarz ‘black’ + trūbe ‘grape’, or from the name of a house or tavern with a sign a dark grapes.

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