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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German houbet, German Haupt ‘head’; generally, a descriptive nickname for someone with a big head, or perhaps a designation of the head of a guild or other group. It is also recorded in the Upper Rhineland as a habitational name from a house sign.

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