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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Buchhalter ‘bookkeeper’, probably an occupational name for someone who kept the books of the Jewish community.
  • Respelling of South German Buchhalter, a topographic name for someone who lived on a beech-covered slope, from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + halde ‘slope’.

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