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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Zähring) : habitational name from a place called Zehring or nickname for someone who lived at the court of or had connections with the powerful dynasty of the Zähringers in southwestern Germany in the 17th century, whose surname is derived from this place.

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