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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for someone who castrated animals (see Heiler).
  • German : derivative of the personal name Heinrich. Compare Heimann.
  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements heil ‘healthy’ + man ‘man’, also used by Ashkenazic Jews.

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