Unland
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Frequency: (167)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German (Westphalia): topographic name for someone living in or farming an area of infertile land, from Middle Low German unland ‘wasteland’.
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