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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Eichenlau, a topographic name from Middle High German eichen ‘oaks’ + lōch, ‘brush’, ‘undergrowth’, reinterpreted through folk etymology as Eichenlaub ‘oak leaf’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Eichenlaub ‘oak leaf’.

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