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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : etymology uncertain; perhaps a topographic name for someone whose house was ditinguished by a hedge in the form of a bower or arbor, from Middle High German hecke ‘hedge’ + an unrounded diminutive form of loube (löubelīn) ‘small bower’.

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