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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with heid ‘heath’ as the first element, or derived from Old High German heit ‘specimen’, ‘being’, ‘character’.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named, near Bremervörde in Lower Saxony.

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