Pomerenke
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Pomerenke
Frequency: (162)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (Pommerenke): ethnic nickname for someone from Pomerania, from a derivative of Middle Low German pomerene ‘Pomeranian’ (see Pommerening). There is a humorous connotation to this name and its many variants: people from Pomerania were considered somewhat slow and backward.
GIVEN NAME German 4%. Kurt (2).
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