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nkurz
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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
I had a friend who's last name was Hodgeson. Until this article I'd never really considered that that it meant "son of Hodge". "Hodge" turns out to be a medieval English nickname for "Roger":
https://nameberry.com/b/boy-baby-name-hodge
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