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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a wheelwright or cartmaker, from Middle Low German asse ‘axle’ + the agent suffix -er.
  • German : variant of Essner.
  • English : perhaps a variant of Asser, itself a variant of Asher.

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