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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname or occupational name from Middle High German hache ‘young man’, ‘guy’, ‘boy’, ‘servant’.
  • German : possibly a North German topographic name, from Low German hach ‘dirty water’.
  • German : (Eastern German) from a Slavic-influenced pet form of the personal name Hans.

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