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[Facts] Re: What does my last name mean?!
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Andy ;—)
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2/16/2005, 10:54 PM
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a message by Kelsey Funk
German
: nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High
German
vunke ‘spark’.
(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
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