Zufall
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Frequency: (232)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: from Middle High German zuoval ‘benefit’, ‘windfall’, hence a nickname for a lucky person or a status name for someone to whom a particular plot of communal land had been allotted.
2. occupational name for a tax collector, from an administrative term denoting a kind of tax.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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