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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name, in northwestern Germany, from an old creek name, composed of Middle Low German vor(n) ‘bog, swamp’ + Middle High German bach ‘stream’; in southern Germany (Baden) the first element is from Middle High German varch ‘pig(let)’.

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