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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Of Dutch or German origin, a habitational name from an unidentified place, perhaps Dutch Essenbroek, named as ‘the marsh (Dutch broek) where the ash trees grow’. In the U.S. this name is found chiefly in MI.

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