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Glockner

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Glöckner) : topographic, habitational, or occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle High German glocke, glogge ‘bell’ (see Glock). In some parts of Germany, Glockner is the usual term for a sexton. Compare Kirchner, Mesner, and Oppermann.

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