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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, Frisian, and North German : distinguishing name, from Middle Dutch de jonc ‘the young’, for the younger of two bearers of the same name, usually a son who bore the same name as his father.
  • Korean : variant of Chong.
  • Chinese : see Zhong.

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