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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian (Van der Sloot) : topographic name from sloot ‘drainage ditch’, ‘channel’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, for example Slote or Sloten in East Flanders.

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