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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of Old High German heim ‘home’, ‘house’ or amal ‘strength’ + rīhhi ‘powerful’, ‘rich’.
  • German and Dutch : habitational name from any of the places on the Lower Rhine named Emmerich.

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