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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the personal name Olbrecht, a variant of Albrecht (see Albert), frequent in Württemberg.
  • German : possibly a topographic name from a variant of Middle High German albe ‘mountain pasture’ (German Alp).

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