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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Hochstätter) : habitational name from a place called Hochstadt, or topographic name for someone who lived in a high location, from Middle High German hōhe + stat ‘place’, ‘location’ + the agent suffix -er.

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