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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : topographic name for someone who lived on dry ground, from Slavic suchy ‘dry’, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, such as Zuch and Zuchen in Pomerania, or Züchen in Silesia.

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