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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of South German Heimbiechner or Heimbüchner, habitational name for someone from a place called Heimbuch, or from a field name, Heimbüchen, composed of Middle High German hac, hagen ‘enclosure’, ‘hedge’ + büchen or biechen, dative plural of Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’.

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