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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German eichen ‘oaks’ + berc ‘mountain’, ‘hill’; a topographic name for someone who lived on an oak-covered hillside, or a habitational name from a place so named near Kassel in Hesse.

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