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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Begehart ‘Beghard’, a member of a lay brotherhood founded in Flanders in the 13th century, the male counterpart of the Beguines (see Begue), or simply an enlarged form of Becker.

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