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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : topographic name for someone who lived in a tall house or a house built in a high place, from Middle High German hōhe ‘high’ (German hoch) + Middle High German hūs ‘house’ (German Haus) + the agent suffix -er.

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