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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Thuringia) : regional name for someone from the Harz Mountains.
  • South German : occupational name for a gatherer of resin, from an agent derivative of Middle High German herzen ‘to cover with resin or tar’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : derivative of Hertz 3 and 4.

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