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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone living by the Ocker river in the Harz Mountains, which perhaps derives its name from a Celtic word for ‘salmon’, cognate with Cornish ehoc.
  • German : patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Odo, Otto (see Ott).

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