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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German (also Baumgärtner) : occupational name for someone who owned or worked in an orchard, from an agent derivative of Baumgarten, or habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called Baumgarten.

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