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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from various farmsteads, notably in eastern Norway, so named from the plural indefinite form of Old Norse eng ‘meadow’.
  • South German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Enge or Engen.

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