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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker or seller of goblets, from Old French hanapier.
  • German and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Hambert, composed of either haim, heim ‘home’ or hagan ‘enclosure’, ‘protected place’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.

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