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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : reduced form of Daubenhauer or Daugenhauer, an occupational name for someone who made staves for barrels, from Middle High German duge ‘dowel’, + an agent noun from houwen ‘to cut’, ‘hew’.

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