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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Züllich, Züllig, which in the east is from a pet form of the Slavic personal names Zulimir or Zulislaw (compare Zuehlke) and elsewhere from the personal name Zyriacus (see Zilch).

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