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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Swiss German : habitational name from any of the various places in Germany called Heideck or from Heidegg near Zurich. All of them get their names from Middle High German heide ‘heath’ + egge, ecke ‘corner’ (see Eck).

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