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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Höchstenbach, a habitational name from a place so called.
  • The founder of the American family, Johannes Wilhelm Höchstenbach, emigrated from Germany to Baltimore, MD in the 1760s.

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