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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German, Middle Dutch, Yiddish held ‘hero’. As a Jewish name, it is often ornamental.
  • German : from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names formed with hild ‘strife’ as the first element.
  • English : variant of Heald.

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