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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements helfe ‘help’ + rīc ‘power’, ‘rule’. One of the early medieval kings of the Franks bore this name, in the form Chilperic, and Helferich was also the name of a character in a medieval heroic epic.

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