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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered form of German Surbach, a habitational name from a minor place named with Middle Low German sūr ‘sour’ (or sure ‘sorrel’) + beke ‘creek’. In Germany this surname occurs chiefly in the Ruhr.

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