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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place called Anholt in Westphalia, which is named from Middle Low German an ‘at’ + holt ‘wood’, or from the old county and castle of Anhalt, named from late Middle High German anhalt ‘stopping point’.

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