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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from the city of Trier on the Mosel, named in Latin as Augusta Treverorum ‘city of Augustus among the Treveri’, a Celtic tribal name of uncertain etymology.
  • Dutch : habitational name from a place so called in Poppel in Antwerp province.

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