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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of various places named Eichen, for example near Siegen or Hanau in Hesse.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German eichen ‘(of) oak’, or alternatively a shortened form of any of various compound names beginning with this element (see for example Eichenbaum).

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