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There are books that will give you that information. Look online for sites that are dealing with family history. Many names are easy to tell where they are from. In the Middle Ages last names told of the place where a person was from. Example is Leonardo da vinci . This means Leonardo of Vinci. In England often the names of jobs became part of the name or the "son of" . In Germany a name like Wasserman translates to water man. The use of last names only developed in the last 500 years.
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