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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German eich(e) ‘oak’ + holz ‘wood’, ‘forest’; a topographic name for someone who lived near an oak wood or a habitational name from any of several places so named.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental adoption of 1.

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