Nothdurft
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Nothdurft
Frequency: (140)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: nickname for a poverty-stricken person, from Middle High German nōtdurft ‘need’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 5%. Franz, Wilhelm.
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