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dresden Name Meaning and History

German, Scandinavian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name denoting someone from Dresden in Saxony.

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Distribution of dresden Families in the US in 1920
Number of dresden families
 5-7
 2-4
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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