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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (especially Westphalia) : habitational name from a farmstead named from Middle Low German esch, asch ‘ash tree’ + hof ‘manor farm’, ‘yard’. In German the usual form of the name is Aschhoff.

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