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[Facts] Re: What does my last name mean?!

by Kelsey Funk (guest)

2/16/2005, 4:41 PM

in reply to a message by Andy ;—)

My name is Kelsey Funk and i want to know what Funk my last name mean and where it comes from. Is it German?

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- Andy ;—) (guest)

2/16/2005, 10:54 PM

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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