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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Hattenbach, possibly from a stream so named in Württemberg, derived from hatt, had ‘bog’ + bach ‘stream’, or, more likely, a habitational name from a place so named near Bad Hersfeld.

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