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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Hörsch) : topographic name from a dialect form of Middle High German horst, hurst ‘undergrowth’, ‘brushwood’, of Slavic origin in eastern regions, e.g. the place name Horscha (Lausitz).

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