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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (eastern and central Germany and Silesia) : variant of Herzog.
  • German : from a short form of any of several Germanic personal names composed with hard ‘strong’, ‘hardy’, for instance Herto.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German herzig ‘delightful’, ‘lovely’.

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