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Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Ansbach, a habitational name from a place of uncertain identity, probably Ansbach near Nürnberg.
  • In 1777 two regiments of mercenaries from Ansbach were sent to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War. After the war was over many of them settled in North America, and some became known by this surname.