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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a keeper of deer, from Middle High German hir(t)z ‘deer’ + the agent suffix -ler.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from a pet form of Hirsch 2.

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