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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname from Middle Low German vāl ‘pallid’, ‘fair’.
  • North German : from the Germanic personal name Falho, a short form of a compound name formed with fal, an ethnic name (the etymon of East- and Westphalia).

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