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Help[Surname] Franz as Russian?
Can this be a Russian name? I heard it on a Russian guy...
We're all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde.
We're all mad here
~The Cheshire Cat.
Viva la revolucion!
We're all in the gutter, but some of us look at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde.
We're all mad here
~The Cheshire Cat.
Viva la revolucion!
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Franz (or Frants)is not listed on the www.mirimen.com website, but Frank and Frantsev are. Frank is described as a Bielorussian Catholic surname from the Germanic frank, meaning "free". Frantsev would also derive from the forename Frank.
Perhaps your Franz had a shortened version of Frantsev, though there's always a chance that he was a Russian of German ancestry.
Perhaps your Franz had a shortened version of Frantsev, though there's always a chance that he was a Russian of German ancestry.
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