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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Harscher (see Harsch).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : derivative of Hersch.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from modern German Herrscher ‘ruler’, ‘sovereign’.

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