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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (de Heer) : from heer ‘(feudal) lord’, ‘master’, preceded by the definite article de, probably applied as a nickname to someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or as a metonymic occupational name for someone in the service of a feudal lord or the like.

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