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Hoberman

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Höbermann) : occupational name for someone whose work involved lifting heavy loads (see Hober) or habitational name for someone from Höver near Ülzen.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a dealer in oats, from Yiddish hober ‘oats’ + man ‘man’.

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