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Albert

Name origin: Old German

Name meaning: Famous for nobility

Einstein

Name origin: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)

Name meaning: habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ‘to enclose or surround with stone’. In the unsettled social climate of the Middle Ages even relatively minor settlements were commonly surrounded with stone walls as a defense against attack.

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