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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van der Sluis) : topographic name for someone who lived by a sluice gate, Middle Dutch sluis (Old French escluse), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, notably Sluis in Zeeland, which was founded in the 13th century.

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