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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name formed with egi ‘point (of a sword or lance)’ (Old High German ecka).
  • Perhaps a respelling of German Eicher.
  • Norwegian : variant (plural) of Eike.

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