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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably an altered form of Herbstreuth, habitational name from a place so called near Bayreuth, Bavaria; the second element, denoting a clearing in the forest, has several variants in German: -reuth, -rieth, -reith.
  • German : Alternatively, perhaps, it may be an altered form of Hebenstreit.

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