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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : humorous topographic name, from a place so named as being at a high altitude, from Middle High German himel ‘heaven’ + rīch(e) ‘empire’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Himmel ‘heaven’ + Reich ‘empire’.

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