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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : either a nickname or an occupational name, from Middle High German vrīheit ‘tramp’, ‘vagrant’; ‘court usher’.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places in northern Germany named Freiheit (literally ‘freedom’), originally a topographic name for an area which had been granted immunity, as for example a cathedral, castle, or diocese.

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