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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (common in Switzerland, also in the Czech lands) : from the Germanic personal name Amalhari, composed of the elements amal ‘strength’, ‘vigor’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • German (common in Switzerland, also in the Czech lands) : possibly a variant spelling of Emmler, a habitational name for someone from Emmeln in northwestern Germany.

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