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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from Hemmerich in the Rhineland, or from any of several places called Hemberg or Heimberg, with dialect alteration.
  • German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements haim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power’, ‘rule’.

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