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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from the city of Heilbronn in Württemberg, where there was once a large Jewish community. The city is named from Old High German heil(ag) ‘holy’ + brunno ‘spring’, ‘well’. See also Halpern.

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