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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Höber) : occupational name for someone whose work involved lifting heavy loads, from an agent derivative of Middle High German heben ‘to lift’, or habitational name for someone from Höver near Ülzen.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name or ornamental name from Yiddish hober ‘oats’. Compare Haber.

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