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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone living by a feature so named, from Middle High German himel ‘heaven’ + stein ‘rock’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Himmel ‘heaven’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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