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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Arndt.
  • Herman Arant and his wife Anna Margretha came to Philadelphia on the ship Hope in 1733 with their sons Peter, Conrad, and Jacob, from whom all present-day bearers seem to be descended.

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