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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river, from Middle High German el(l)enboge ‘elbow’, or habitational name from any of several places named Ellenbogen or Ehlenbogen from this word.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Ellenbogen ‘elbow’ (see 1).

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