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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge or by the boundary of an enclosure or who owned an enclosed lot in the forest, from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’ (see Heck 2) + man ‘man’.

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