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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a habitational name from any of several places so named in all parts of Germany.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper part of a village, from ober ‘up’, ‘above’ + Dorf ‘village’

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