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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Croatian : nickname from a derivative of the adjective herav ‘slanted’, ‘bent’, ‘crooked’, a word of Turkish origin.
  • Croatian : patronymic from the personal name Hero, a short form of German Hermann.
  • Croatian : nickname for someone from Herzegovina.

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