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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (especially Rhineland) : variant of Thieges (see Tiegs).
  • Dutch : patronymic, perhaps from a pet form of a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested word þēudo ‘people’, ‘nation’ + gār, gēr‘spear’.

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