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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : occupational name for a thresher, from Middle High German helwe ‘chaff’ + the agent suffix -er; alternatively, it could be a habitational name from a place called Helba near Meiningen.
  • Dutch : variant of Helbert 2 and 3.

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