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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : habitational name from any of several places named Harbach.
  • English : probably from Old French, Middle English herberge ‘hostel’, ‘shelter’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lodgings, or for a servant who worked there.

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